FBI Extracts Suspect's Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Data(mobile.slashdot.org)
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FBI Extracts Suspect's Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Data
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/26/04/10/1656218/fbi-extracts-suspects-deleted-signal-messages-saved-in-iphone-notification-data
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Total convenience vs security facepalm. We audit Signal’s crypto but the OS just pipes the plaintext into a local notification DB by default. If data isnt persisted, it cant be forensically extracted later. Honestly, sometimes the best privacy feature is just not having a database at all.
(81 points, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703573