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Matt (It's really me) Hartley on Nostr: RE: Today's lesson in security. Dead drop, paper, fire. Stuff sent into the ether ...

RE: https://mastodon.opencloud.lu/@BrideOfLinux/116387060206759050

Today's lesson in security.

Dead drop, paper, fire. Stuff sent into the ether regardless of how is just waiting for stuff like this.

Anything else is just "security theater" IMHO.

I wish I could say I was surprised about this report. But, here we are. Signal is more secure, yes. But NOTHING is bullet proof.
A federal courtroom in Texas became the setting for an unexpected cybersecurity lesson when FBI investigators showed they could pull copies of encrypted Signal conversations off a suspect's iPhone, despite the app having been completely wiped from the device: FBI retrieved deleted Signal messages from iPhone notification storage https://betanews.com/article/fbi-recovered-deleted-signal-messages-iphone/