Comment on Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThey not only look at your files but will decrypt any encrypted zip files to see what you have.
Comment on Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThey not only look at your files but will decrypt any encrypted zip files to see what you have.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That seems less like them decrypting encrypted archives and more like the zip format not encrypting filenames so they’re easily read from the zip’s metadata.
Which is still a privacy violation, to be clear, but not nearly on the same scale as somehow obtaining and using your passwords.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That was what someone claimed but it isn’t true. Filenames are not accessible in an encrypted zip.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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it depends on the type of zip encryption, the default doesn’t encrypt metadata
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They are visible, you can test yourself. Open an encrypted zip with 7zip and it’ll show the file list even without entering a password. The “encrypt file names” checkbox doesn’t even appear when creating an archive if the zip format is selected, so I’m not sure the format even supports it.