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Article does not follow from headline. "It’s unclear if the FBI actually broke through any layers of encryption to get the data. It’s possible that Cohen, who
by rconti 8y ago
Article does not follow from headline.
"It’s unclear if the FBI actually broke through any layers of encryption to get the data. It’s possible that Cohen, who apparently at times taped conversations, stored the conversation logs in a less-than-secure way."
- tudorconstantin 8y agoI wanted to post that exact quote as a TL;DR for the article. We can consider the article a reminder that secure communication tools are not enough for full privacy. One also needs a privacy aware behavior to take advantage of such tools: don't record/backup these conversations, delete the history from your app, have strong passwords, etc.
- nerdponx 8y agoOf course it follows. "Secure communications app" != "Secure communications"
- goalieca 8y agoProtecting data in transit vs data at rest. Classic. Reminds me of.. « Yes your database was encrypted but the key was stored in a file on the server adjacent. »