Interesting, but what are they doing to combat Greykey and Cellbrite…
https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-project-infinity-the-team-keeping-you-safe-online
Probably not much. That is still an Apple, Google and GrapheneOS thing. Samsung should do it too as they also sell a lot of Android phones but they don’t. And I have no doubt that they have the money and capabilities to do so. I know Google gives Android OEMs money for supporting their devices with updates longer, but that’s all Google does. They don’t strong arm them much more into making their devices actually secure. I don’t have much faith in Samsung after they shipped 100 million phones with broken encryption. Though they are better than other Android OEMs with updates and security.
Realistically this is just an ad. It’s unfortunate, but Samsung is notoriously terrible at securing their devices. Especially when it comes to forensic data extraction, Pixels (with GrapheneOS) and iPhones are the only reasonable choices.
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Late to the party, but this is a bit surreal to me. Doesn’t Samsung sell to governments and defense entities? When they constantly get owned by cellbrite, is it just the consumer configured devices and consumer secure folders that get defeated? Do these extractions include the secure workspaces and dualdar configured workspaces that have been approved for common criteria and niap certifications? And don’t they now have updated USB security to stop the tools from working? Any feedback here would be helpful…