On March 10, 2026, FBI testimony in a federal trial in Texas revealed that investigators had extracted incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app.
If your phone is gone and you cannot remotely wipe it before someone with real resources accesses it, assume everything on it is compromised.
On January 14, 2026, the FBI seized the phone, laptops, and Garmin watch of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson as part of a leak investigation.
Hong Kong passed a law on March 23, 2026 making it a criminal offence to refuse police access to your phone or laptop.
End-to-end encrypted by default for all messages and calls.
A record of processing activities.
DNS queries: every domain name your device looks up.
In a short deployment, you use a travel device and leave.
When you open an incognito window, your browser stops saving three things locally: your history, your cookies, your form data.
Hotel Wi-Fi, conference networks, local SIM data, shared internet in partner offices: all of these are environments where traffic can be read by parties you have no visibility into.