Technology

70267 readers

5832 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related news or articles.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

259

WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer Weekly (www.computerweekly.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

54 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncroChat

So this sounds like the ANOM phone story with extra steps?

I get that they can "access" messages, but the headline feels misleading if it requires full access to the device.

It's not that they're breaking encryption or reading messages in transit, it's more like they're installing malware on specific devices so that they can look at your screen?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Because truth is more complex and does nor drive clicks. so far every time we see signal in a headline like this, it will generally be "cops had physically access" "no password" or "password leaked"

ie something that encryption is not designed to defend against.