Finally, the FBI was able to open the phone of the person who shot Donald Trump

Finally, the FBI was able to open the phone of the person who shot Donald Trump

Finally, the FBI was able to open the phone of the person who shot Donald Trump. It is a Samsung phone. This is what they found inside it.

The big news of the week is without a doubt: a shooter attempted to assassinate Donald Trump during a recent rally in Pennsylvania. The news hasn’t stopped since, and the most recent news is that the FBI was able to unlock the cell phone of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the shooter and architect of the attack.

As Bloomberg commented , the incident happened last Saturday when Crooks opened fire, causing real chaos. After his arrest, the FBI tried to access the contents of Crooks' cell phone, which is the key to the investigation. However, they found that it was locked, so they had to start working to discover more information about this person, his conversations, and above all, what is hidden behind all this.

Initially, the FBI used Cellebrite software to try to unlock it, but they were unsuccessful. Due to the importance of the case, it was sent to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, where experts continued to work on it.

The bureau confirmed Tuesday that they had finally succeeded. Until then, it was not known whether the Crooks attacker was using an iPhone or an Android device, and specific details about the process used to access the mobile phone were not yet known.

The Bloomberg report reveals that the shooter used “a newer Samsung model running the Android operating system.” This gave an idea of ​​the potential problems and methods needed to gain access to the device. The FBI decided to go directly to Cellebrite , an Israeli company known for its ability to unlock and extract data from cell phones, for “additional technical support and new software still under development” to unlock the phone.

The Associated Press reported that Crooks had "photos on his phone of former Republican President Joe Biden and other officials." The FBI also reportedly found cellphone searches for "information about major depressive disorder."

You might be wondering how important it is that Android or iOS is the ultimate mobile operating system. The truth is that this is not entirely the case and the situation is different with Apple devices. The leak suggests that Cellebrite cannot unlock iPhones running iOS 17.4 and later. Additionally, you also cannot access most iPhones running iOS 17.1 to 17.3.1, although there are exceptions due to hardware vulnerabilities in models like the iPhone XR and iPhone 11.

With that in mind, the truth is that it was fortunate that it was a Samsung smartphone, both for its ease of unlocking and for Crooks's intentions to be fully understood and for other figures in the American political scene to be protected, as we've already seen. That doesn't mean that Android devices are less secure.