I wonder, if Ben-Peretz and his checks 250 researcher team can crack checks 150 phones a month what is stopping the <scary US government agency>/<Chinese equivalent>/<Russian equivalent> from forming a 2,500 researcher team and doing the same?
It's not like there's a shortage of relevant skills in the US (supposedly responsible for stuxnet) or Russia.
Or is it just that <scary government agency> doesn't want to share its toys with <local police>?
Ah well, with Mediatek based phones it's pretty easy - you can readback the whole storage once you have its partition map from a rooted device, or you know the size of its flash chip and figure out the partition bounds later.
Dunno about the situation with other phones but given that many cheap Androids run Mediatek, it's not very difficult to claim a huge number of "crackable phones".
The only thing that should protect you from any kind of government snoops is encrypting your phone with a strong passphrase and shutting it off once you leave a room taking the cops less than 30 seconds to enter.
It's not like there's a shortage of relevant skills in the US (supposedly responsible for stuxnet) or Russia.
Or is it just that <scary government agency> doesn't want to share its toys with <local police>?