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.
Can’t you just look at the data in. The database though? No need to login as the user. Surely not every field is hashed
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That’s a good point and I don’t know the answer to that (my guess is encryption is involved), but as other people have pointed out, Facebook has an alternate encrypted messaging service, WhatsApp, so Facebook is clearly capable of not being able to access its users’ messages.
Yeah, based on Signal’s protocol. Signal is the only messaging app I use.
Wasn’t there strong evidence Facebook has a built-in backdoor to their encryption?