FBI recovers WhatsApp, Signal data stored on Michael Cohen's BlackBerry

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: June 17, 2018 at 11:31:37 PM GMT+9
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] FBI recovers WhatsApp, Signal data stored on Michael Cohen's BlackBerry
> Reply-To: dewayne-net () warpspeed com
>
> FBI recovers WhatsApp, Signal data stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry
> Letter to judge reveals 731 pages of messages, call logs uncovered on one of two phones.
> By SEAN GALLAGHER
> Jun 15 2018
> <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/06/fbi-recovered-hundreds-of-encrypted-messages-from-michael-cohens-phone/>
>
> In a letter to the presiding judge in the case against Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's long-time personal 
> attorney, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York revealed today that it had obtained 
> additional evidence for review—including a trove of messages and call logs from WhatsApp and Signal on one of two 
> BlackBerry phones belonging to Cohen. The messages and call logs together constitute 731 pages of potential evidence. 
> The FBI also recovered 16 pages of documents that had been shredded, but it has not yet been able to complete the 
> extraction of data from the second phone.
>
> The letter to Judge Kimba Wood stated that "the Government was advised that the FBI’s original electronic extraction 
> of data from telephones did not capture content related to encrypted messaging applications, such as WhatsApp and 
> Signal... The FBI has now obtained this material."
>
> This change is likely because of the way the messages are stored by the applications, not because the FBI had to 
> break any sort of encryption on them. WhatsApp and Signal store their messages in encrypted databases on the device, 
> so an initial dump of the phone would have only provided a cryptographic blob. The key is required to decrypt the 
> contents of such a database, and there are tools readily available to access the WhatsApp database on a PC.
>
> In a post to Twitter, attorney Michael Avenatti, who represents Stormy Daniels in her suit against Cohen over a 
> nondisclosure agreement regarding her alleged sexual encounters with Donald Trump, crowed about the new evidence.
>
> [snip]



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