“If you use these kinds of attacks on a massive scale, it increases the risk of detection. “End-to-end encryption has pushed intelligence agencies from unfettered access to mass surveillance to a world where they have to use expensive, high-risk, targeted attacks against individuals to gain access to their information,” he said.
On Tuesday, many took to social media to fret over the extent to which messaging apps that they believed secure may not be.īut Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Open Whisper Systems, said, if anything, the data show that Signal and apps like it are actually working. Intelligence experts have attributed the spike to widespread concern among activists, whistle-blowers, journalists and marginalized communities about how Trump might use the nation’s intelligence apparatus to target them. Signal, developed by San Francisco nonprofit Open Whisper Systems, and WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook and widely used by refugees, migrants and those traveling abroad, were among several apps whose messages were compromised, according to the data released by WikiLeaks.ĬIA hackers found a way to break into smartphones and read - or listen - to messages in real time, before the communication could be encrypted by the apps transmitting them, according to the documents.ĭownloads of encrypted messaging apps like Signal have spiked since Donald Trump won the presidency in November.
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