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It is incredibly disingenuous to frame this as a personal "slight". This is a real security threat to the users of Signal, not some vendetta. Celebrite sells th
by DoctorNick 5y ago
It is incredibly disingenuous to frame this as a personal "slight". This is a real security threat to the users of Signal, not some vendetta. Celebrite sells their tech to oppressive regimes and they use this against their opponents, who likely use Signal to communicate.
- saagarjha 5y agoCellebrite has been operating with their present capabilities for several years. I can see few reasons why Signal would choose to publish a blog post such as this now, if not for the fact that a couple months ago Cellebrite write a blog post that specifically mentioned their ability to extract data from Signal (which, to be clear, was not a specific vulnerability in Signal). This prompted a very pointed response from Signal, which you can read here: https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-and-clickbait/ https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-and-clickbait/. The timing makes it pretty obvious that Signal/Moxie took this personally (to say nothing of the general atmosphere when that blog post was written) and then took a few months acquiring a UFED and exploiting it, the results of which we're seeing now.
- slim 5y agoIt's not a vendetta. This blogpost has had cellbrite deploy a more secure update to their software. Law enforcement agencies will be more secure, plus they will probably refrain from hacking signal which is a net positive for it's users. Publishing that blog post is a sound business decision