[bronco21016]

The only thing you’re missing in your plot is encrypted messengers that can’t be cracked without sweeping legislation.

[ideophobia]

I saw a bunch of headlines recently that said the FBI had decrypted one of the popular secure messaging apps (telegram or signal maybe?), which, bizarrely enough, fits my narrative perfectly. Though I saw other headlines stating that was incorrect reporting.

[corndoge]

You probably saw the headlines about Cellebrite claiming to have "signal decryption" capabilities, which they did, provided they had the device in hand and unlocked

https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-and-clickbait/

[suifbwish]

Woah! They can decrypt it when it’s decrypted!! News!

[anonymouse008]

Just like anyone with a private key and file — this site has tangibly shifted from ‘14 to now.

[pseudo0]

Most people seemed to be having lots of fun roasting Cellebrite for that awful article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25520481

[bronco21016]

The company claiming to have broken Signal was simply pulling the database of messages off of an unlocked phone. It’s definitely not a hack and the blog post has since been heavily retracted.