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Signal messages retrieved from iOS notification, as seen in Prairieland federal trial (europe.pub)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TLDR: signal content in Apple notification can be retrieved even after signal app deletion.

I saw from this reddit thread: Signal messages retrieved from iPhone after uninstalling app. : signal

Referencing this news article: Pretti Killing May Affect ICE Prairieland "Antifa Cell" Terrorism Trial

The mention of signal is in court documents here: March 10: Federal Trial Day 12 - Support the Prairieland Defendants

Signal chat evidence from Sharp’s device (Exhibit 158):
Messages were recovered from Sharp’s phone through Apple’s internal notification storage — Signal had been removed, but incoming notifications were preserved in internal memory. Only incoming messages were captured (no outgoing).

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[–] 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Honestly I have a much much much MUCH MUCH bigger issue with the fact that it is an American and Centralised service.

FBI still can't access it though.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    Is there a good decent e2e messenger not in the US? Would love an alternative.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    There's Matrix which is selfhostable but "good" is pushing it and the cryptography is a bit iffy (probably more incompetence than malice). Though selfhosting it means you don't need the end to end encryption quite as much... until the court gets involved of course.

    -- Frost

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