Unencrypted chat history is a prime target for police

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.

  • False@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Apple didn’t have the means to decrypt the information, but it was within their ability to do (by writing code to do so.)

    Happen to have a source for that? That’s nigh impossible for most encryption