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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWired: The CIA Can't Crack Signal and WhatsApp Encryption No Matter What WikiLeaks Says
Dont Let WikiLeaks Scare You Off of Signal and Other Encrypted Chat Apps
A close reading of the descriptions of mobile hacking outlined in the documents released by WikiLeaks shows that the CIA has not yet cracked those invaluable encryption tools. That has done little to prevent confusion on the matter, something WikiLeaks itself contributed to with a carelessly worded tweet:
Link to tweet
( WikiLeaks #Vault7 confirms CIA can effectively bypass Signal + Telegram + WhatsApp + Confide encryptionhttps://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1)
The end-to-end encryption protocols underpinning these private messaging apps protect all communications as they pass between devices. No one, not even the companies providing the service, can read or see that data while it is in transit. Nothing in the CIA leak disputes that. The underlying software remains every bit as trustworthy now as it was before WikiLeaks released the documents.
Of course, the CIA can compromise the devices sending or receiving those messages. By taking control of a so-called end point, spies can access everything on a smartphone, be it texts, videos, the camera, or the microphone. It isnt about defeating encryption, despite the hype, says Nicholas Weaver, a computer security researcher at the International Computer Science Institute. If you compromise a targets phone, you dont care about encryption anymore.
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/wikileaks-cia-hack-signal-encrypted-chat-apps/
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Wired: The CIA Can't Crack Signal and WhatsApp Encryption No Matter What WikiLeaks Says (Original Post)
ehrnst
Mar 2017
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Wiki is dead to me...Assange is a liar and a Russian puppet...how sweet...when
Demsrule86
Mar 2017
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Renew Deal
(81,883 posts)1. I thought that point was pretty clear.
Maybe not
Demsrule86
(68,715 posts)3. Wiki is dead to me...Assange is a liar and a Russian puppet...how sweet...when
Trump needs a distraction...his buddy Assange helps him out or is it Putin? I won't even bother to look at anything Wiki or read any story associated with Wiki.
unc70
(6,121 posts)2. If they hack your phone, doesn't matter what app you use
Once your phone is thoroughly hacked, then your apps can be hacked, too. It doesn't matter whether the app uses encryption or not. You are still exposed.