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Comment by saiya-jin | Hacker News Reader

wait, random example for CYBERHAWK - "Takes 4-10 mins for download; Saved and dialed numbers, missed calls, SMS data, pictures, calendar, sound files all consolidated into one report" - how is it possible?

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    > Cyber Hawk exploits over 79 cell phones

i would say: unpublished exploits and backdoors

Or the 79 cell phone models with no security in the first place. Lots of phones 10+ years ago didn't really bother.

Not really enough to go on here. Are these unlocked phones? Which models? I seem to recall that many old dumb phones had official, proprietary interfaces for downloading data off them.

Some companies are selling 0day for use in LE/Intelligence. Some large vendors might also work with them in the end.

It requires physical access to the device, which makes a lot of this information easy to obtain, especially at the time the catalog was created.

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