“I think the impact on existing cases will be negligible, but that Signal has made an important point that may help push the mobile device forensics industry towards greater accountability for their often sloppy product security.”
More than two thousand US police agencies use phone extraction tools, including 49 of the 50 biggest cities. ICE has Cellebrite contracts worth tens of millions. The software that decides what goes in front of a jury turned out to be exploitable. Courts will shrug. Defense lawyers now have a reason to ask.