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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by fidget on Saturday March 11, 2017 @03:39AM (#13844802)
Right, which is why I said those blackbox methods were pretty rubbish. You step through it with a debugger.
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Re:What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works by ThrustVectoring on Saturday March 11, 2017 @04:10AM (#13844867)
The point isn't to nab every thought-to-be-encrypted conversation on Signal. The point is to evade detection while compromising high-value message streams. Stepping through with a debugger is never going to execute the feature-flagged "pwned" mode.
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