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Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

…Signal only sends a notification that you received a message.

Signal on iOS shows previews by default. It even reads messages over AirPods as they come in.

iOS must be doing something special here, right? They can’t be sending message contents through the same route as push notification metadata, or it would be breaking end-to-end encryption… right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Correct, messages aren't E2E encrypted if the push has the data.

If there's any reason to preserve privacy the push only has an identifier of the message to be downloaded on the device. When it comes in, the device downloads it and then if you've allowed it, will show it on a notification