{"id":21535,"date":"2018-05-15T15:52:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T19:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21535"},"modified":"2018-05-15T15:52:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T19:52:15","slug":"when-disappearing-messages-dont-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/15\/when-disappearing-messages-dont-disappear\/","title":{"rendered":"When Disappearing Messages Don&rsquo;t Disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/objective-see.com\/blog\/blog_0x2E.html\">Patrick Wardle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/objective-see.com\/blog\/blog_0x2E.html\"><p>In short, Alec noted that if using the <a href=\"https:\/\/signal.org\/download\/\">macOS Signal App<\/a>, disappearing messages may remain in macOS&rsquo;s Notification Center. Yikes!<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>While the application deletes the messages (once the &lsquo;disappear&rsquo; time is hit) from the app&rsquo;s UI - the message may <i>still remain in macOS&rsquo;s Notification Center<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This apparently occurs because:<\/p>\n<ol><li>Signal displays (posts) a message notification (with the content of the message) to the Notification Center (if the app is not in the foreground).<\/li><li>The OS automatically dismisses the notification &lsquo;banner&rsquo; &#8230; but the notification (which contains the message contents) remain in the Notification Center.<\/li><li>Signal, <b>does not<\/b> explicitly delete this notification when it deletes messages from the app UI.<\/li><\/ol><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even if it did delete the notifications, the data might still remain in the SQLite database file.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/28\/textexpander-5\/\">TextExpander 5 and Notification Center Privacy<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Wardle: In short, Alec noted that if using the macOS Signal App, disappearing messages may remain in macOS&rsquo;s Notification Center. Yikes![&#8230;]While the application deletes the messages (once the &lsquo;disappear&rsquo; time is hit) from the app&rsquo;s UI - the message may still remain in macOS&rsquo;s Notification Center. This apparently occurs because: Signal displays (posts) a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-05-15T19:52:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"9f0064f3-659a-4e32-b8df-85dc196ca024","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-05-15T19:52:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AnwBk82WaTjK434XcGWygJA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[30,32,1529,111,355,1672],"class_list":["post-21535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-13","tag-notificationcenter","tag-privacy","tag-signal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21536,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21535\/revisions\/21536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}