FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages

northstar-au 4 hours ago|

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dfir-lab 13 hours ago||

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iririririr 11 hours ago||

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kome 14 hours ago||

signal is security theater, and a very bad user experience

noman-land 14 hours ago|

Prove it.

rainingmonkey 13 hours ago||

> very bad user experience

"To use the Signal desktop app, Signal must first be installed on your phone."

well_ackshually 13 hours ago|||

thank god whatsapp doesn't do that either. or telegram. or allo back in the day, or every single mobile first messaging app

The only one I can think of that doesn't require a mobile login is iMessage, because it's not a chat app, it's lock in and data theft disguised as software

opan 11 hours ago|||

XMPP and Matrix don't require a phone number and have fine mobile apps.

xvector 9 hours ago||

And there's a reason they've achieved precisely zero penetration amongst normies.

A chat app is useless if your friends and family won't use it.

chanux 11 hours ago|||

I think delta chat is a counter example.

bharat1010 11 hours ago|

Kind of a wake-up call that even "deleted" messages aren't really gone if the OS is caching notification previews — makes you rethink what end-to-end encryption actually protects you from.