Belgian Police Say They Decrypted Half a Billion ‘Sky’ Messages

Re:Belgian Police Say They Decrypted Half a Billion ‘Sky’ Me... by vmception on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:41PM (#26483423)

From what I can tell, encryption services like this function more like an affinity scam. People believe any claim to make them feel safe.

(Not saying this service was a fraud, just that the users are not objective)

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Re:Belgian Police Say They Decrypted Half a Billion ‘Sky’ Me... by foolmeonce on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:06PM (#26483809)

I think it's an issue with estimating probabilities.

They probably saw a few failures a year of people using Signal or WhatsApp slopily on old Android phones that were easy to sideload onto with a warrant, had microphones with no hard switch, etc, etc.

They probably saw no failures of Sky ECC (as it sounds like a vendor hardened the phone for them and any convenience over security features are non-existent) right up until the claim that the protocol is broken and everyone is affected.

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