Signal's vice president of strategy said the firm “would rather pull out of the country” than comply with Bill C-22, which could threaten end-to-end encryption. Privacy messaging app Signal has said it may exit Canada if forced to comply with the country's proposed lawful access bill, which would require companies to build technical surveillance capabilities that some argue could threaten end-to-end encryption. In an interview with Canadian news outlet The Globe and Mail on Thursday, Signal's vice president of strategy and global affairs, Udbhav Tiwari, argued that the bill could threaten encryption and leave private messaging services vulnerable to potential cyberattacks. Bill C-22 is part of a regulatory package introduced in March. It would require electronic service providers to build surveillance capabilities and retain certain user metadata for up to a year as part of a broader push to help law enforcement investigate crimes such as terrorism and child exploitation. Read more
FBI used the flaw to extract readable Signal messages from an iPhone's notification database even after the app was deleted. Tech giant Apple has fixed a security flaw that had allowed the FBI to access a Signal user’s deleted messages through their phone’s push notification database, despite the app being deleted and messages being set to disappear. In a security advisory released on Wednesday, Apple said it had fixed a bug that allowed “notifications marked for deletion” to be “unexpectedly retained on the device.” In an X post on Wednesday, Signal said the update fixed the issue that made a user’s messages retrievable by law enforcement. Read more
Jack Dorsey and Peter Todd are among the Bitcoiners voicing support for privacy messaging app Signal to adopt Bitcoin amid a “Bitcoin for Signal” campaign. Several Bitcoiners, including Jack Dorsey, have reinforced their push for the privacy-focused messaging app Signal to adopt Bitcoin through a new “Bitcoin for Signal” campaign, which aims to integrate Bitcoin with the Cashu protocol to enable payments within the app. “@Signalapp should use Bitcoin,” Dorsey posted to X on Thursday, retweeting a post from pseudonymous Bitcoin developer Cashu, who is behind the Bitcoin for Signal campaign. Bitcoin for Signal aims to implement Cashu’s “Chaumian Ecash” solution, which integrates Bitcoin with the Cashu protocol to enable Bitcoin payments on Signal. Read more