Hubi@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoFBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Databasewww.404media.coexternal-linkmessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-square4am@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoNotifications go through FireBase Cloud Messaging (FCM) on Android. They bounce off a Google server. Even from local, on-device apps. Same with iOS. They can read and store every one of them, and you don’t control the encryption keys.
minus-squareBjörn@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoBut they only instruct Signal to wake up and download whatever is waiting. They don’t contain the message contents.
Notifications go through FireBase Cloud Messaging (FCM) on Android. They bounce off a Google server. Even from local, on-device apps.
Same with iOS.
They can read and store every one of them, and you don’t control the encryption keys.
But they only instruct Signal to wake up and download whatever is waiting. They don’t contain the message contents.