Border Force bought phone hacking tools used by crooks, techs; wouldn't confirm if they required a warrant http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/border-force-uses-publicly-available-phone-hacking-tools-used-by-crooks-techs-20170712-gx9mm3.html …
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You mainly use some of them to change an IMEI number on a phone so you can reuse one which has been blacklisted by a telco.
Or you can use them to unlock networks. Eg you buy a Telstra-network locked phone, you unlock it and use a different carrier.
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They can extract data, which is how I assume cops / Border Force / crooks use them. But it's incoherent to how Cellebrite extracts it.
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But phone repairers can use them to fix phones, sell old ones or even glean data off a dead relative's phone if you don't have the lock.
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