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Re:ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville by ideophobia on Friday December 25, 2020 @10:13PM (#25541071)
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.
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Re:ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville by corndoge on Friday December 25, 2020 @10:32PM (#25541161)
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/

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Re:ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville by suifbwish on Saturday December 26, 2020 @04:03AM (#25542253)
Woah! They can decrypt it when it’s decrypted!! News!
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Re:ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville by anonymouse008 on Friday December 25, 2020 @11:13PM (#25541317)
Just like anyone with a private key and file — this site has tangibly shifted from ‘14 to now.
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Re:ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville by pseudo0 on Saturday December 26, 2020 @01:22AM (#25541829)
Most people seemed to be having lots of fun roasting Cellebrite for that awful article.

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

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Re:ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville by bronco21016 on Friday December 25, 2020 @10:33PM (#25541169)
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.
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