Technology Quarterly | Read my phone
Police can bypass encryption and monitor anything
The law is not keeping up
“YOU can tell me who you are,” says Leeor Ben-Peretz, an executive at Cellebrite, an Israeli security-tech company, “But give me 15 minutes with your phone and I can tell you who you really are.” Mr Ben-Peretz’s office windows have a lovely vista of the low-slung skyline of PetahTikva and the burnished mountains beyond, but the real view is on a large monitor in front of him.
This article appeared in the Technology Quarterly section of the print edition under the headline “Read my phone”