cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1874605

A 17-year-old from Nebraska and her mother are facing criminal charges including performing an illegal abortion and concealing a dead body after police obtained the pair’s private chat history from Facebook, court documents published by Motherboard show.

  • Skyrmir@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You can do it because you’re a small company. Get enough attention, and the FBI will force you to decrypt on demand. They’ve done it before and the supreme court backed them up. Do it over seas and expect your US traffic to get blocked, if they don’t raid your offices.

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      1 year ago

      That is untrue. The FBI tried to get Apple to decrypt a shooter’s iPhone in Florida a few years back and they wouldn’t budge.

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        1 year ago

        This isn’t quite right…

        Apple didn’t have the means to decrypt the information, but it was within their ability to do (by writing code to do so.)

        But asking a company for the unencrypted data, and forcing a company to produce a new application, are completely different things.

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          Apple didn’t have the means to decrypt the information, but it was within their ability to do (by writing code to do so.)

          Happen to have a source for that? That’s nigh impossible for most encryption

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      1 year ago

      E2EE is what prevents this, which is why the TLAs hate it and legislators are trying to prohibit it.

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        1 year ago

        Signal yes, WhatsApp yes but not the meta data, telegram only if explicitly set to encrypted otherwise no.