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German police read Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption (cybernews.com)
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cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/71321898

Netzpoltik details that police are able to gain access in this way either through physical access to someone’s phone or by intercepting verification codes via a state-sanctioned phishing attack or intercepting SMS messages via telephone surveillance

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[–] 103 points 2 days ago (16 children)

Signal failed to prevent soneone from accessing my unlocked phone and starting Signal! Everything was right there!

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  • [–] 12 points 2 days ago (15 children)

    On iOS you can set an app to require additional credentials to open, to prevent this situation. I'd imagine Android had something similar. I did it for all my important apps, just in case. Don't want someone able to access my bank account or nudes.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

    If someone can get unlocked access to your phone, your security practices are already insufficient. If you really want to prevent something like this, you need to make this first step impossible, not add a bandaid on top of it.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago (8 children)

    Just poked around. As far as I can tell there aren't any options to require additional credentials to open an app on android. Im on a pixel 10 running android 17. However there is a locked "app drawer" that hides the apps from your home screen/ main app drawer that you need to have an additional password to access.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    It s litteraly on the signal option "Require acces code to open signal"

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    Yes, but that's a signal option, not an android option. The original commenters said ios had a feature to require additional credentials and was wondering about android, not a specific app that happens to be on android

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    There's Private Space, but that's not ideal for a general-purpose messaging app because notifications are suspended when the space is locked. Signal also has the option to require the same authentication method as your screen lock in order to access the app.

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