you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • 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.

  • source
  • parent