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Encrypted Apps Can Protect Your Privacy — Unless You Use Them Like Eric Adams
The Eric Adams indictment says one of his staffers excused herself during a meeting with the FBI to delete encrypted messaging apps.
Digital security appears to be a fixation of New York Mayor Eric Adams and his staff, at least according to his indictment on multiple charges, including soliciting and receiving campaign contributions from a foreign national, bribery, and wire fraud. Deleting messages, or even an entire app, may nonetheless leave an array of bread crumbs for investigators that would betray the fact that interactions between certain parties may have transpired, even if the actual contents of the conversations may no longer be recoverable. However, these various deletion measures come with critical caveats that can nonetheless leave traces of the fact that communications between certain parties may have transpired — which in some cases may be sufficient to pose problems for the people implicated.
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