No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption”

Re:No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption” by toby- on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @02:03PM (#25520856)

And the original blog post by Cellebrite does claim to have 'cracked' the encryption, doesn't it? So the BBC's headline isn't exactly inaccurate.

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Re:No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption” by kortex on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @02:14PM (#25520990)

So what? There's plenty of dubious blogs claiming all manner of things. The actual accomplishment isn't noteworthy (they wrote a scraper). If it were encryption-breaking, it would indeed be noteworthy, and thus worthy of fact-checking or at least waiting for Signal's rebuttal of "lolwut, no, that's nonsense".

"Accuracy" is moot here: BBC's headline is misinformation.

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Re:No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption” by upofadown on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @02:16PM (#25521008)

No, it didn't. It specifically stated that access to the Android keystore was needed to get at the stored Signal data.

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Re:No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption” by AsyncAwait on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @04:23PM (#25522374)

There's a blog post claiming the Earth is flat. Would the BBC publish an article on it outside of satire?

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