Court Docs Reveal FBI Tool That Can Read Your Encrypted Private Signal Messages

Court documents from a recent gun-trafficking case in New York has revealed a tool by the FBI which can read your encrypted private messages on the Signal messenger application.

The court documents, filed by the Justice Department and obtained by Forbes, showed screenshots of Signal messages between men allegedly discussing an illegal weapons trade and attempted murder.

The screenshots reportedly showed metadata indicating that Signal had been decrypted on their phone when the device ...

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