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FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 day ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[–] x550@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Anyone know if this retained on android notifications ?

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 70 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So the vulnerability here was the iphone, not the app.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

Always has been.

[–] Willoughby@piefed.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What if I told you on some phones, an Ai agent is watching your every keystroke, making e2e entirely moot?

What if I told you that if anyone in the chatrooms you visit has one, then the entire chatroom is compromised, you included?

Food for thought.

[–] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which ones? Do you have an article I can read more?

[–] Willoughby@piefed.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

This would either be opt-in or up to your device. I'd suspect any Pixel, Samsung or iPhone with Ai assisted accessibility features enabled to be likely targets.

My statement, in truth was more of a "water is wet", broad stroke. If some feature of your phone involves an Ai agent reading your screen, then I hate to say this, but I'm afraid an Ai agent may be reading your screen.

When it does, whether it does becomes irrelevant if it can, and I don't trust ifs. I directly tell my iPhone and average Android users on XMPP that they should know not to discuss much more than they would in a crowded mall, if that. You're at the mercy of your manufacturer for any illusion of privacy you believe you may have. In more truth, we all are, me on a Oneplus 11 on Lineage, just maybe slightly less so. No Ai, at least.

[–] gigachad@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I read the researchers could retrieve the messages from a database that kept the push Notifications. I wonder how this behaves for Android.

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yes

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 1 day ago

Heck, android even suggests what to reply based on your typing history.
Dunno why @frongt@lemmy.zip “unworth reading⇩” you.

[–] lumpyluggage@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why are old notifications saved at all?

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And if they are saved, why can't I look at them?

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They're not saved for you. They're saved for the purposes of those who use your data for profit.

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

you just need to turn off message previews in notifications then… and disable siri

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

Doubt doing that has any effect on the database, it just hides the preview on a locked phone.

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

and put the phone in a hydraulic press.