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Today in crypto, push notifications can create a backdoor, breaching user privacy, says Durov, and WLFI fell to a record low after it was revealed that the project used its own tokens as collateral to take a loan. Meanwhile, Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency market remained resilient as elevated inflation cuts into hopes for interest rate cuts.
Pavel Durov, co-founder of the Telegram messaging application, sounded the alarm on data stored in push notification logs on users’ devices, which could be used to breach privacy and gain access to message histories.
Durov cited recent reports that forensic analysts at the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were able to retrieve messages sent on the privacy-preserving messaging application Signal by accessing push notification system logs on an Apple iPhone. Durov said:
