cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/71321898

Netzpoltik details that police are able to gain access in this way either through physical access to someone’s phone or by intercepting verification codes via a state-sanctioned phishing attack or intercepting SMS messages via telephone surveillance

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    lol

    either through physical access to someone’s phone OR by intercepting verification codes via a state-sanctioned phishing attack OR intercepting SMS messages via telephone surveillance

    it’s literally a quote in the post. physical access was only one way they accessed messages.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      That’s not the point I was trying to make. You are acting like simplex is better than signal because it requires physical access… that’s how it works for signal as well…that was the point…