Security News > 2024 > January > Canadian Citizen Gets Phone Back from Police

After 175 million failed password guesses, a judge rules that the Canadian police must return a suspect's phone.

Judge] Carter said the investigation can continue without the phones, and he noted that Ottawa police have made a formal request to obtain more data from Google.

"This strikes me as a potentially more fruitful avenue of investigation than using brute force to enter the phones," he said.

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