Police couldn't crack Alek Minassian's laptop, phone passwords despite eight months of trying; efforts are continuing to date, to no avail

[DeepSea]

Alek Minassian has consistently refused to give his prosecutors access to his electronic devices. They hired several private security firms to try to crack his passwords but their attempts were unsuccessful.

Police couldn’t crack Toronto van attack driver’s laptop, phone passwords despite eight months of trying

Toronto police consulted with other agencies, including the RCMP, and private security firms. No one could help. Apple was ‘unable or unwilling’ to assist

nationalpost.com

Toronto police spent more than eight months continually trying to guess the password to unlock the laptop of Alek Minassian, the admitted driver during the 2018 Toronto van attack that killed 10 people.

In the face of “almost infinite” combinations of letters, numbers and symbols, the automated process had not been successful, according to police documents dated this May.

Toronto police say investigators were unable to crack the password and encryption on both Minassian’s Apple MacBook Pro laptop and the Asus cellphone he carried when arrested at the scene of the carnage from the April 23, 2018, attack.

 

[Deleted member 19236]

The perks of autism

 

[BabyFuck McGirlsex]

Thats some next level encryption - i wonder what kind of software that based encryptioncel was using

 

[Deleted member 1252]

This is standard modern encryption. Provided that the password is sufficiently complex and long (16 characters is enough), then AES-128 is essentially unbreakable.

 

[_wifebeater_]

So we'll never get to see the chat history between him and ER?

 

[ihaveno1]

lmao hilarious tbh, wonder what he wants to hide, ER left his laptop on in his room before going on rampage

 

[Deleted member 15752]

The perks of autism

 

[TINMAN]

lmao hilarious tbh, wonder what he wants to hide, ER left his laptop on in his room before going on rampage

10 TB of Shrek fanfiction.

 

[Edmund_Kemper]

So we'll never get to see the chat history between him and ER?

I’m curious what they said to each other

 

[acnescarcel]

So we'll never get to see the chat history between him and ER?

i think that was bullshit anyway

 

[starystulejarz]

they should hire that 4chan hacker guy

 

[ThisLifeKillsMe]

They will crack them when they have a quantumcomputer in the future

 

[mcfroggy]

They prbly already cracked it and saw that he suffered a horrible past which would explain his actions. Can't have the public sympathizing or they'll actually start thinking.

 

[FinnCel]

The perks of autism

You put what I had in mind to words

 

[Teutonic Knight]

If he didn't want people to see it, why didn't he just throw it away knowing that he will go on rampage anyway?

Or did he want to deliberately waste time of police?

 

[starystulejarz]

If he didn't want people to see it, why didn't he just throw it away knowing that he will go on rampage anyway?

Or did he want to deliberately waste time of police?

Or maybe he didn't give a fuck or thought he could come back home after vaning ppl and they won't find him JFL

 

[Deleted member 1780]

He didn't do anything that complex right? He had a sufficiently long and random password.

 

[RREEEEEEEEE]

Damn, he needs to teach me how to ensure such encryption. I don't want anyone to find out about my interracial porn collection.

 

[Deleted member 19236]

Damn, he needs to teach me how to ensure such encryption. I don't want anyone to find out about my interracial porn collection.

lol

 

[mentalcel]

wonder what he wants to hide

You don't wanna know it boy. lol.

 

[FlamingCel]

The perks of autism

 

[Emba]

They prbly already cracked it and saw that he suffered a horrible past which would explain his actions. Can't have the public sympathizing or they'll actually start thinking.

The perks of autism

)o

 

[iblamemyself]

And in the end it was probably something like "iloveelliotrodgerabc"