Signal: Firm claims to have cracked chat app's encryption
BBC News By Jane Wakefield image copyrightSignal Israeli security firm Cellebrite has claimed that it can decrypt messages from Signal's highly secure chat and voice-call app, boasting that it could disrupt communications from "gang members, drug dealers and even protesters". According to one cyber-security expert, the claims sounded "believable". But others, including Signal's founder, have dismissed them as being risible. The BBC has contacted Cellebrite and Signal for comment. Signal did not reply but later posted a blog describing Cellebrite's original post as being "pretty embarrassing"....