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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/Published at
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