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submitted 1 year ago by Motavader@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I don't see refenece in this article or any others, but how did prosecutors get access to SBF's Signal messages?

Was it simply a court order that he unlock his phone (and agreed), or a codefendant who flipped to the prosecution and handed over the thread?

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[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, we have separate profiles, but sometimes I just let him use some software on mine, like a game, or whatever, and then I go and do something else. The use-case is there, along with encrypted messages, but people say things like what you said because they don't personally have that use-case.

I'd look at implementing it myself, but they wouldn't merge it, and I'm not going to maintain a fork indefinitely.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For your use case, running a VM on your desktop should be sufficient. The VM could have disc encryption. So when you're letting somebody else use your terminal, they can't access your interesting messages.

Hyper-V has this built in I believe, QEMU does it as well, UTM on Mac OS makes it pretty easy. But there's a thousand different ways to skin this cat

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Most sensible way in my opinion would be for the Signal app to have a PIN and encryption on desktop, just like it already does on the mobile apps.