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It’s definitely the executives. You don’t get to say something like “a Cellebrite fell off a truck” if you’re anyone besides the CEO.

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Anyone with basic legal training would definitely say the same. Anyone reading too much hacking/legal/mafia fiction may say the same. Anyone from France could say the same, given that expression [0] entered common language back in the 70-80's when expropriating logistics trucks to redistribute wealth to poorer neighborhoods was very common practice.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tomb%C3%A9_du_camion

It's not about the commonly-known phrase, it's about the fact that it was used in an official blog post.

And even cute staged pictures of the Cellebrite in the road. Nobody other than the CEO even would think of doing something so provocative in a space with national security interests and regulators involved.

Moxie wrote the Cellebrite article.

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