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on Tuesday April 05 2016, @11:17PM
from the what-about-beginning-to-beginning dept.
from the what-about-beginning-to-beginning dept.
The title pretty much says it all. According to the report:
the service will encrypt all messages, phone calls, photos, and videos moving among [the devices].
Moxie Marlinspike is involved, so they have a chance of getting it right, and no one, even WhatsApp, will be able to know what you”re saying, texting, viewing, &c. (Unless, of course, your widget is running malware, or the opposition can get their mitts on it.)-: They claim this is available on nearly a billion devices—this is a really big deal.
takyon: Alternate links with no Wired paywall: TechCrunch, Washington Post, CNET, Reuters.
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(Score: 1) by Francis on Tuesday April 05 2016, @11:56PM
Depends how it's set up. They could set it up so that they don't have access to the device specific keys, such as via public key cryptography. In which case, it doesn't matter what letters they get, they wouldn't have the ability to break in there and can't be legally compelled to do so.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 06 2016, @01:13AM
"Deploy a software update to this device's IP address that sends us a copy of the password and backdoors further encryption"
(Score: 1) by Francis on Wednesday April 06 2016, @02:42AM
Google doesn't permit 3rd party updates. The only updates they can make are through play. I believe that Apple has similar rules.
So, unless you're sideloading the app, they can't do that. Also, they can only access data that's stored at that time, not necessarily anything that you've been talking about previously.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday April 06 2016, @05:10AM
There is another hole to consider.
Both Apple and Google have backup of settings you've made on your device. Maybe Windows phone too for all I know.
They back up various app data. https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/2819582?hl=en [google.com]
So if someone could get to your google account, they could attempt to get at that data, and probably get keys to a lot of castles.
I've had one app issue an update just to turn off backup of its settings as that google backup represented a security risk.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 06 2016, @10:41AM
"Deploy a software update that sends us a copy of the password and backdoors further encryption for this device"
(Score: 2) by bitstream on Wednesday April 06 2016, @02:53PM
How would you know it actually does what it says?