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Re:Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messag... by JimDabell on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:32PM (#26097564)
> To defend against on-device attacks or iCloud backups, Telegram would need to do its own, separate encryption of its storage and prompt the user for a passphrase at app launch.

This isn’t quite correct. iOS applications can exclude files from iCloud backups.

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Re:Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messag... by saagarjha on Thursday February 11, 2021 @04:46AM (#26099814)
This would still fail to preclude an on-device attack.
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