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		jakobdabo 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone becau... > I believe secrets are still encrypted at this stage similar to cold boot. Does this mean that the Signal desktop application doesn't lock/unlock its (presumably encrypted) database with a secret when locking/unlocking the laptop?

dagmx 4 days ago [–]

It wouldn’t matter because the whole OS would be evicted from memory and the entire storage encrypted.

Signal itself wouldn’t even be detectable as an app

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