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Summary: The video discusses the recent security vulnerabilities in Android exploited by authorities for unlocking devices and highlights Google’s efforts to patch these vulnerabilities. It also emphasizes the troubling double standards present in the use of exploits, exemplified by a user’s experience with Microsoft’s support team who resorted to using hacking tools to activate a legitimate license.

Keypoints:

• The video addresses the exploitation of security vulnerabilities by legitimate sources to achieve their goals.
• Google recently patched several zero days in Android to prevent unauthorized access to devices.
• The patch specifically targeted vulnerabilities used by a digital forensics company, Celebrate, to unlock Android phones.
• Amnesty International discovered these zero days were used against a student protester in Serbia.
• The Serbian Security Information Agency has a history of leveraging zero days for phone unlocking through Celebrate’s technology.
• Anecdote shared about Tiberius, who experienced Microsoft’s help desk using an open-source hacking script to activate Windows 11.
• The incident highlights the irony and double standards in the use of hacking tools for legitimate purposes.