Israel Dismantles Signal App … Journalists Lose Safety?



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And Israeli digital intelligence company Celebright announced that it could decrypt “Signal” and access user data through “Signal,” which uses highly secure technologies to encrypt its users’ data.

“Criminals use this app to communicate, send attachments, and make illegal deals that they want to keep separate and out of sight of law enforcement,” the company said.

The Signal application uses a high security technology called “Signal Protocol” to encrypt communications between its users who know the difficulty of a third party to access conversations through this application.

The Israeli company sells its tech products to law enforcement agencies around the world, and Celebrity has previously developed Universal Forensic Evidence Extraction (UFED), which enables systems to open and retrieve data from any smartphone that finds or seized.

The Signal app is widely used by journalists and human rights activists as it is considered the safest among communication and conversation apps.

Signal receives funding for its application from free speech organizations and press watchdog bodies, as the Press Freedom Foundation provided support for the development of the app after it was launched in 2018.

The Israeli newspaper “Haaretz” said that human rights lawyer Itay Mac recently launched a legal campaign against Celebright, in an attempt to limit its ability to provide programs to authoritarian regimes.

Mack is trying to force the Israeli government to regulate the sales of piracy programs to Celebright in the same way that the government regulates the sale of weapons.



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