An Android phone screen lock using a pattern seems secure enough to embarrass the FBI.
In a federal court filing (PDF), the FBI said forensic experts made "multiple attempts" to access content on South Korea's Samsung Android phones, but were unable to unlock them. said.
On an Android phone, after too many wrong swipe patterns, you can't unlock it without your Google email address and password. To unlock the cell phone of a suspected San Diego-area pimp, the FBI obtained a search warrant from the court and sought information from Google.
A federal judge in San Diego just days ago approved the warrant requested by FBI Special Agent Jonathan Kapina.
The warrant instructs Google to "verbalize" Samsung's "default code" in order to disable the "pattern lock" set on Samsung's Exhibit II (model number SGH-T679). or in the form of “written instructions”.
Because smartphones contain so much personal information, locking your phone is more important than ever. In addition, many states, including California, give authorities the right to access a suspect's mobile phone without a warrant if they are caught in some crime.
Forensics experts agree that Android passcodes are strong. "It's no wonder you can't bypass the device while it's alive," Dan Rosenberg, a consultant at Virtual Security Research in Boston, said in a telephone interview. Authorities could "disassemble the phone and extract the data from its physical components if they wanted access," he said, but that would risk destroying the phone's internals and making it impossible to recover the data. It is said that there is
