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halaprotoday at 3:25 PM1 replyview on HN

While it's definitely surprising that the OS caches this data after the notifications have been swiped away, I always thought that notifications are an obvious hole in the whole E2E encryption setup.


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Thorreztoday at 3:29 PM

AIUI, Signal push notifications just saying a message was received. Signal then fetches the E2E encrypted message from the server and decrypts it locally. So Apple/Google cannot read the messages, nor can Signal servers.

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