• Squizzy@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Yeah I was wondering what it could be myself, the notification text access was a thought. I didnt realise they were unencrypted on the phone. If I go to save a picture from a chat I am prompted with the this is going outside the sandbox dialogue.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      They do seem to have experimental support for local encryption, but I don’t think it’s quite the win people will assume it is, since an attacker could conceivably pull the key from memory when you access Signal. A regular user isn’t likely to be targeted by an attack that would retrieve the encrypted messages, and a state-level attacker can work around the encryption.

      It’s a hard problem to solve, and the best answer is to make sure you use hardened devices and ideally not discuss sensitive information on a handheld device in the first place.