How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages

About this episode

The episode discusses the FBI's extraction of deleted Signal messages and the implications for secure chat apps.

We start this week with Joseph’s story on the inherent friction between secure chat apps like Signal and the phone they’re running on. Incoming message content can be stored in a phone’s internal notification database. After the break, Matthew tells us the latest about the data center pushback. Then in the subscribers’ only section, Emanuel tells us all about Marathon and its player numbers. (00:00) Intro (01:21) FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database (26:01) Maine Is Close to Passing a Moratorium on New Datacenters (33:21) Farmer Arrested for Speaking Too Long at Datacenter Town Hall Vows to Fight Subscriber's Story: I Wish I Didn’t Care About 'Marathon' Player Numbers, But I Do Subscribe at 404media.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Joseph, Emanuel

Topics covered

• secure chat apps
• data extraction
• datacenter regulations
• notification database
• FBI
• Signal messages

Keywords

• FBI
• Signal
• data extraction
• notification database
• Maine
• datacenters
• Marathon

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FBI

Products: Signal

Places: Maine

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