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Having the key just isn't enough, you also need a traffic copy and break the transport encryption. The latter likely requires rewriting the data stream, and som
by fweimer 3y ago
Having the key just isn't enough, you also need a traffic copy and break the transport encryption. The latter likely requires rewriting the data stream, and some cooperation from a vendor (maybe not the vendor whose service you are targeting, though). A one-time key leak without access to interception infrastructure is probably not that useful.
Key leaks are also relatively easy to prevent because secret keys are not relevant to investigations, so they never have to leave the interception framework and handed to a human operator. Sure, the infrastructure could be compromised, but that's already an extremely severe issue if you just have metadata in it.