Now I want to know what kind of phones these are!
Police must return phones after 175 million passcode guesses, judge saysHow many times should forensic investigators be allowed to guess the password of a locked cellphone belonging to a suspected pedophile?
That was the question that confronted an Ottawa judge recently when he was asked to rule on an application by the Ottawa Police Service to retain three cellphones from the suspect for two more years.
The police seized the phones in October 2022 with a warrant obtained based on information about a Google account user uploading images of child pornography. The contents of the three phones were all protected by complex, alpha-numeric passcodes.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Ian Carter heard that police investigators tried about 175 million passcodes in an effort to break into the phones during the past year.
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