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CFTC said that they got some deleted messages from a Signal app. Isn't this bigger news?
by sainttookmoon 4y ago
CFTC said that they got some deleted messages from a Signal app. Isn't this bigger news?
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> CFTC said that they got some deleted messages from a Signal app. Isn't this bigger news? No. Informants, possibly even confederates.
- mikeyouse 4y agoLikely not -- the US Government wouldn't admit to an exploit of that magnitude in a CFTC filing so it was surely either a seized phone or a collaborating witness providing them chat logs.
- jxf 4y agoNo. If others have copies of the messages, that's not surprising at all. It's not an encryption problem if you give an incriminating secret to someone and then they tell the authorities.
- cguess 4y agoSignal is encrypted in transit, only sorta at rest. If someone gets your device you're already in serious trouble. Disappearing messages is the best bet against it, but if someone takes screenshots or the app isn't opened after the time as elapsed and the SQLite database is extracted, you're out of luck.
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- rvnx 4y agoThere is a real technical possibility for Signal or Google to push an update to specific targets, but it's unlikely for this type of crimes (the technique better be kept for terrorism). Most likely a mole in the organisation.
- hef19898 4y agoA mole? I'd rather call them whistleblowers.
- chc4 4y agoThey don't say they have deleted messages. They say that CZ has disappearing messages turned on, and they have his phone and some messages - it might just be that they only have messages that are within the disappearing window, or some conversations that were in seperate chats without disappearing messages enabled, or messages from backups or some of the counterparties that were saved, etc.