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0 pointscontravariant4y ago0 comments

Sure, but exactly how would you build something that's robust against that kind of access?

If you leave cryptographic keys lying around unprotected they should be assumed to be compromised.

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Signal has a PIN, too. If that's required for the transfer, then it would prevent this in the case of brief, surreptitious access. A hostage scenario is impossible

contravariantOP4y ago

Well, maybe, but 'brief' is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in that sentence.

klyrs4y ago

> There are many cases where an attacker can access a device for a short time and/or without the owner realizing that the phone was tampered with.

This is what you originally responded to. I paraphrased it. The "heavy lifting" meme that you've employed is rarely more than a shallow dismissal. Be better.

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klyrs4y ago

Signal has a PIN, too. If that's required for the transfer, then it would prevent this in the case of brief, surreptitious access. A hostage scenario is impossible

contravariantOP4y ago

Well, maybe, but 'brief' is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in that sentence.

klyrs4y ago

> There are many cases where an attacker can access a device for a short time and/or without the owner realizing that the phone was tampered with.

This is what you originally responded to. I paraphrased it. The "heavy lifting" meme that you've employed is rarely more than a shallow dismissal. Be better.

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