Apple patches bug that let FBI access deleted Signal messages

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• markz@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How does Apple’s bug affect Signal messages? Is it just notifications?

  Yeah it was.

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  • remington@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was more than just notifications as it has been pointed out by another user in this thread

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• Ooops@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What actual news did I miss that triggered the half a dozen fake hacked/bug articles regarding Signal I read in the last 48 hours?

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Apple was saving notifications on the device storage, which provides a way for forensics to extract some of the past messages.

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    • Ooops@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wasn’t my point. What’s going in with Signal to tell the story of accessing deleted Signal messages (and multiple are Signal hack/ bug/exploit headlines seen within a short time frame) when this is exactly zero about Signal?

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  • remington@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How is this story fake?

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    • Ooops@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There was an Apple bug that allowed restoring information from their notification system. So Apple leaked info from Apps that used the notifications. From any App. Why is this talking about Signal? Why not a “Apple patches bug that allowed access to E2E encrypted WhatsApp messages”? Why not “bug that allowed access to your call history even after deletion”? Because those are all equally true. What’s reason we are talking about Signal here.

      And to add more context: the exact same was true for the other “Signal bug/hack/exploit” articles I mentioned. No actual connection to Signal at all, yet that was always the story told.

      Apple fucks up an leaks all private information that passes through their notification system? “Bug that allowed to read Signal messages!” Idiot fell for phishing attempt and logged into a fake website giving someone else full access to their device? “Hacker managed to access XY’s Signal account!”. I left my door standing wide open when leaving to work and got robbed? “Doors don’t actually protect your stuff!”

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    • markz@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t call it fake, but I can see how someone would feel a bit cheated by this headline. I do mildly.

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• drathir@mastodon.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  @remington oh no *feature* get broken... ^^ ;p

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