Federal investigators are analyzing device’s content, although it is unclear how agency gained access
The FBI has gained access to the phone of the suspected gunman who opened fire on Donald Trump’s rally and is analyzing the device’s contents, the agency stated in a press release on Monday afternoon. The shooting, which killed one audience member and left Trump bleeding from one ear, is being investigated as an assassination attempt.
Authorities have been working to determine the motive behind the attack at Trump’s campaign rally on Saturday, but no clear picture has yet emerged. The gunman, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks by the FBI, was shot and killed in the incident.
Federal investigators announced on Sunday that they had obtained Crooks’s cellphone, but had issues with bypassing its password protections to access the data within. FBI investigators then shipped the phone to a lab in Virginia, where agents successfully gained access, per the bureau’s press release.
Investigators couldn’t get in with 1234, so they shipped it to their lab to try 5678
Wonder if this was one of the latest flagships or something older
Not 000000?
Bro forgot to turn off his phone before they shot him.
If he had fingerprint unlock it would be pretty easy to get in considering they have access to his fingers. Facial recognition… less successful in this case.
Gotta turn the phone off so it makes you actually log in.
On my pixel the pin required lock is up vol and power > lockdown.
Lmao. I don’t restart enough to have realized that’s an option. My failsafe was to chuck it so it restarts…
I do have my Nexus One hanging out somewhere in storage. Had to know all the tricks back then.
This comes up every so often and it was something I learned during the same conversation, so I always just pass it along.
For me the fingerprint unlock is just too convenient to not use, but it’s nice to know I can lock down my phone quickly if I need to.
Yeah. Ty. The toss metod isn’t as guaranteed as it once was.
Crooks, who left behind no immediately available manifesto or record of the attack, unlike many other modern assassination plots or mass shootings. He was registered as a Republican voter and donated $15 to a Democratic-allied organization but did not maintain a large online presence.
Well this is thoroughly unhelpful.
Someone with the same name made the donation. At this point, we do not know if it was the assassin who made the donation, or an 80 year old with the same name.
IIRC the donation had his address on it, they do in fact know it was him.
Or GrandPa Crooks.
In any case, I’m still trying to figure out how closely-related the organization was. “Democrat allied” or whatever could be almost anything.
The organization was ActBlue.
ActBlue Charities Inc. is an American political action committee and fundraising platform established for serving left-leaning and Democratic nonprofits and politicians.
ActBlue handles donations for several organizations and candidates.
The specific affiliated organization he donated to was the Progressive Turnout Project
Federal Election Commission records show that a donor listed as Thomas Crooks with the gunman’s street address gave $15 to Progressive Turnout Project, a Democratic-aligned political action committee, on Inauguration Day in January 2021, when Crooks was 17.
It literally has the address of his house on it.
He donated money when he was 17. It was $15.
It’s the same info we knew 2 days ago, so and nothing was added, from the phone
I hate when that happens. Now they’ll have to take it to one of those repair places.
Look, we have a bastardized version of right to self repair, so they should just give it back to the owner. He might have problems fixing it, but still.
unless brute force was done, it might be a cold boot, usb exploit or bootloader exploit by physically accessing the storage.
