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Wouldn't call it fake, but I can see how someone would feel a bit cheated by this headline. I do mildly.
Huh? It seems accurate to me.
A bug in Apple's notification system allowed extraction even when the message that triggered the notification was deleted.
This means access you any text you got. This means a list of any incoming calls. This means all your appointments that your phone reminded you of.
And instead we get a story about deleted Signal messages, prominently featuring Signal in the thumbnail and picture while failing to mention any of the other implications of that Apple-specific bug.
How is that accurate or even just sane reporting? Either it's an incredibly stupid take or there is an actual agenda focusing on Signal here. And when I see several of those (including stuff like people falling for phishing attempts and giving away access to their devices being reported as "Hackers getting access to Signal account") within just a few days I tend to assume the latter.
The people trying to destroy privacy really want Signal to get smeared and go away. Any time any kind of scandal shows up where Signal was being used it's always a headline in this light when the majority I have all seen are due to user error and/or stupidity.
The court case being reported on was specifically about how the FBI recovered messages from Signal by exploiting a bug in apples notification system. You should not be struggling this hard to understand what context is.