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A comment on FBI's ability to legally access secure messaging app content and metadata [pdf]. Parent comment

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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