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FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
(www.404media.co)
So the vulnerability here was the iphone, not the app.
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2026
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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.
Which ones? Do you have an article I can read more?
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.
I read the researchers could retrieve the messages from a database that kept the push Notifications. I wonder how this behaves for Android.
yes
Heck, android even suggests what to reply based on your typing history.
Dunno why @frongt@lemmy.zip “unworth reading⇩” you.
Why are old notifications saved at all?
And if they are saved, why can't I look at them?
They're not saved for you. They're saved for the purposes of those who use your data for profit.
you just need to turn off message previews in notifications then… and disable siri
Doubt doing that has any effect on the database, it just hides the preview on a locked phone.
and put the phone in a hydraulic press.