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 I was requested to make a glossary for the terms so here they are:

AFU: After First Unlock

Cellebrite refers to devices AFU as a device where it is in AFU state where they do not know the user's credential. If it is known or brute forced, they use the term 'Unlocked' instead.

AFU support without Brute Force could imply a unique exploit to unlock, like IPR or a lockscreen bypass.

BF: Brute Force

BFU: Before First Unlock

A 'BFU Extraction' on the table is a type of extraction for a very small amount of BFU state accessible data only. It doesn't mean they can extract the entire device. Using a brute force to unlock the device would turn it into Unlocked.

FBE: Filesystem-Based Encryption (Encryption Android and iOS uses)

FDE: Full Disk Encryption (Android FBE is really a form of FDE, but they use FDE to refer to the non-filesystem-based dm-crypt encryption from older Android versions.)

FFS: Full File System extraction (OS data, data of current user, app data, files and more).

SPL: Security Patch Level ('Up to {date} SPL' means it works on versions BEFORE that date)

Supersonic BF: Supersonic Brute Force

IPR: Instant Password Retrieval (iPhone specific exploit)

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