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Curious, what about password protected cellphones?

"Sure officer, here's my phone, you're welcome to fiddle with the password screen until you wipe the device."

In the article, it said that the device used could extract data regardless of whether the phone was password-protected or not. Looks like it's time to start encrypting our cellphone data as well.

To clarify, I was curious about California's situation.

I don't recall any mention of the specific methods used in California, but in this case the officer took the phone when he arrested the person, so presumably the police had quite a long time to muck about with it. Here is one of the original articles covering the California Supreme Court ruling:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/warrantless-...

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