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Let me get this straight...

The default setting for Signal on an iPhone allows law enforcement to see the content of all incoming messages, even after the app has been deleted? 🤔

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The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a recent trial told 404 Media. The case involved a group of people setting off fireworks and vandalizing property at the ICE Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, Texas in July, and one shooting a police officer in the neck.
Default Signal settings on an iPhone Notifications: Show Name, Content, and Actions

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.
Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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craignicol
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craignicol
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@mastodonmigration eh what?

On Android it just shows "you have a new message". Was this an Apple or a Signal decision?

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Erwin Rossen 🔸
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Erwin Rossen 🔸
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@craignicol @mastodonmigration On my Android it did show Name and message completely. Not sure if I have changed that setting myself in the past 8 years that I have been using Signal, or whether that is/was the default.
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â  â µ avuko
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â  â µ avuko
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The default setting for the iPhone by the US company Apple is to pass messages through to their Notification functionality.

They could be retrieved by the FBI from the US company Apple's push notification database.

The US company Apple, not Signal, has a shoddy security model here.

PS: To any Apple fanboys who can't stand a single bad word about Apple, I'll block you permanently and happily if you even give a squeak.

#Apple #Signal #FBI #Fascism

#Signal #apple #FBI #fascism
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C++ Wage Slave
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@avuko
Oh, but it's even worse than that. From TFA:

Authorities have turned to push notifications more broadly as an investigative strategy too; in June 404 Media reported Apple gave governments data on thousands of push notifications. Those were legal demands made to Apple, while the Prairieland case was about data from a device authorities had physical access to.


This suggests that your #notifications are sent home to #Apple. Why is that necessary?

I have further questions:

  • Why, and for whose benefit, were notifications stored on the phone after the #Signal app had been removed? They were useless to the other of the phone.
  • How much of this vulnerability is shared with Android phones?
#Signal #apple #notifications @â  â µ avuko
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