Gang members and drug dealers have been quick to adopt ways to screen their communications. This is why law enforcement agencies are seeing a rapid rise in the adoption of highly encrypted apps like Signal, which incorporate capabilities like image blurring to stop police from reviewing data.  Decrypting messages and attachments sent with Signal has … Continue reading "Cellebrite’s New Solution for Decrypting the Signal App"

Signal may be vulnerable

  • solune
    3·
    5 years ago

    Would the ability of the NSA and possibly the police to decrypt phones be due to a backdoor, and if so, could installing a different OS on the phone help prevent that?

    • chad1234
      3·
      5 years ago

      the leaks suggest a range of mechanisms but yes installing a different OS would help. that doesnt make you immune and there are still ways to crack other OS but it would close off the backdoors of google Android.

    • chad1234
      2·
      5 years ago

      installing a diff OS could brick your phone maybe. beware and maybe should use a cheap phone