Would this be just marketing, or a real threat for double ratchet encryption? This sound really sad if true. Not sure if Signal has anything to comment about this announcement…
Would this be just marketing, or a real threat for double ratchet encryption? This sound really sad if true. Not sure if Signal has anything to comment about this announcement…
“No, Cellebrite cannot decrypt Signal communications. What they sell is a forensic device cops connect to insecure, unlockable phones to download a bunch of popular apps’ data more easily than doing it manually. They just added Signal to that app list. That’s it. There’s no magic.” -@snowden on twitter
What doesn unlockable means BTW? unencrypted? To install Lineage for example, one needs to unlock the bootloader. Is that the unlocking mentioned, or something else?
Snowden seems to mean just the lock on the phone i.e. a PIN number.
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1338868352547229696
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1338863546889748484
I think it refers to the operating systems locking mechanism (what you do on boot to unencrypt/unlock your phone). Basically if you don’t add a password lock to your phone or make your phone password 1234 it doesn’t matter how secure the apps and protocols are, you’re fucked at the access point.