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

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

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

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      2 months ago

      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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        2 months ago

        Doesn’t help a whole lot if you hand the unlocked phone with the unlocked app to a police officer.

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          2 months ago

          Because if you do, you just got Cellebrite’d. Your entire phone is compromised, now and going forward.

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        2 months ago

        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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            2 months 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