EU and UK spent millions on Israeli phone cracking tech despite risks
jruohonen
30 points
11 comments
November 07, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
saidnooneever
i wonder if the same millions invested in researchers in UK and EU would simply yield the same results but safer.
MisterMunchkin
Everyone uses cellebrite because they have a moat that AI companies could only dream of. You could read through their entire leaked source and copy their product, it means jack shit. Their product is their pipeline of 0-days which lets them get into the latest products. Nobody else has it, so nobody else matters. Their actual product itself is pretty shit, but it doesn’t matter because nobody else has their level of expertise and the level of espionage required to hack all of these devices.