A company known as Cellebrite claims that they have broken Signal's encryption.
The BBC posted an article about this claim:
Below is a link to the company's page in which it is advertising to law enforecement entities that its product can "legally" access Signal's data. Since laws differ from country to country, I'm not sure how they can state confidently that this is legal. The company is located in the country known as the "State of Israel."
Tangential, but related: a very good friend who once worked at SmugMug went to help his buddies code an app for a company a few blocks from us. He invested $250K in them and wrote a lot of code.
He pushed and pushed for them to support encryption, but they were hesitant because notification previews for the messages they send. The company was called WhatsApp and when Facebook bought it, his $250K turned into $300 million. The epidemic has been really good to large capital holders like him, so that number has pretty much doubled.
His friend, one of the two co-founders of WhatsApp, turned against Facebook and their non-privacy privacy policies, so he left and invested $50 million in Signal.
I tried to convince him that he should invest in Cake, and he heard me out. But in the end, he's a free-speech and privacy advocate to the extreme and decided we were not that.
We're still great friends and I just recommended a camera for him to buy, but it was a pivotal moment for Cake.
This is a clickbait and misleading headline by BBC. Read the debunk here - https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-and-clickbait/
I am glad that you found that posting. I will say that I was skeptical about the claim and I am glad to now know what really was the basis of this claim.
