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Signal: Cellebrite claimed to have cracked chat app’s encryption – Yahoo News Australia
The details explaining how Cellebrite had done so were quickly removed from its website.
Israeli security firm Cellebrite has claimed that it can decrypt messages from Signal’s highly secure chat and voice-call app, boasting that it could disrupt communications from “gang members, drug dealers and even protesters”.
A blog on its website detailing how it did it has since been altered.
According to one cyber-security expert, the claims sounded “believable”.
But others, including Signal’s founder, have dismissed them as being risible.
The BBC has contacted Cellebrite and Signal for comment.
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