FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app content and metadata [pdf]

Re:FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app cont... by upofadown on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @06:09PM (#29398608)

In most cases you are going to want to separately passphrase your messaging stuff so it is locked up when you are not using it. That makes every thing else a lot easier. For example, there is a Signal fork that supports such operation:

* https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android

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Re:FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app cont... by babypuncher on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @06:48PM (#29398941)

So you're saying I should have to type a secure passcode every single time I want to read or send a message on my phone?

No thanks.

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Re:FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app cont... by upofadown on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @01:20AM (#29401232)

I think that it would stay unlocked for a time, possibly till you locked it. Possibly such an arraignment would be more practical for something offline like encrypted email.

A compromise would be to just save the messages to a passphrase. You could use a public key so that you would only need the passphrase to read the old messages. I haven't heard about anything that actually does this.

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