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I'm guessing some overzelouse 20 year old at cellebrite "hacked" signal and wrote a silly blog post that no one at the company reviewed and marketing was happy

I'm guessing some overzelouse 20 year old at cellebrite "hacked" signal and wrote a silly blog post that no one at the company reviewed and marketing was happy to have some engineering thing to blog. to me what is embarrassing is that all of these major news outlets and professional journalists could not actually read the article and do some very basic research before blasting out to the public. It just really shows how low the bar is to get something published. I could blow my nose on YouTube and make stock picks based on where the bugger lands and I wouldn't be surprised if BBC Business picks up the breaking story. That's how low the bar is it seems. Sad.

PragmaticPulp 6y ago
> I'm guessing some overzelouse 20 year old at cellebrite "hacked" signal and wrote a silly blog post that no one at the company reviewed More likely the opposite: Some engineer was tasked with adding Signal database handling, marketing got wind of it, and they went to town on blog posts and PR pieces about it. Really though, they don't care that it's technically wrong. The target audience for this stuff isn't other engineers or technical people. It's their potential customers, who don't know the difference.
- polar 6y ago
  > It's their potential customers, who don't know the difference. Their potential customers (forensic examiners not just in law enforcement, but also corporate investigators, incident response etc.) do know the difference. Being able to get data from the endpoint is exactly what they are after, because the alternative is that some poorly paid soul has to sit and photograph thousands of pages in numerous applications. Having access to the database saves time, reduces interaction with the exhibit and gets metadata which isn't shown on the phone.
ehsankia 6y ago
Right, some private company posting a misleading blog post is one thing, hell, even small news blogs posting about it, I could understand. But a large news organization such as the BBC not even bothering to contact Signal to get a statement or their side of the story? What the hell... Someone should get fired over this.

PragmaticPulp 6y ago

> I'm guessing some overzelouse 20 year old at cellebrite "hacked" signal and wrote a silly blog post that no one at the company reviewed More likely the opposite: Some engineer was tasked with adding Signal database handling, marketing got wind of it, and they went to town on blog posts and PR pieces about it. Really though, they don't care that it's technically wrong. The target audience for this stuff isn't other engineers or technical people. It's their potential customers, who don't know the difference.

polar 6y ago
> It's their potential customers, who don't know the difference. Their potential customers (forensic examiners not just in law enforcement, but also corporate investigators, incident response etc.) do know the difference. Being able to get data from the endpoint is exactly what they are after, because the alternative is that some poorly paid soul has to sit and photograph thousands of pages in numerous applications. Having access to the database saves time, reduces interaction with the exhibit and gets metadata which isn't shown on the phone.

ehsankia 6y ago

Right, some private company posting a misleading blog post is one thing, hell, even small news blogs posting about it, I could understand. But a large news organization such as the BBC not even bothering to contact Signal to get a statement or their side of the story? What the hell... Someone should get fired over this.