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incompatible on Feb 11, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal...

Presumably a defence lawyer could ask for demonstration of the technical details: prove that they have the ability to obtain such evidence and didn't just fabricate it.

qwerty456127 on Feb 11, 2021 [–]

Then everybody would know they can and no people of those they could want to hunt would rely on the compromised technologies anymore.

There are rumors they can even decrypt HTTPS but I bet they would do their best to hide that if they actually could.

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