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The Medium is the Message: How Secure Messaging Apps Leak Sensitive Data to Push Notification Services

The Medium is the Message: How Secure Messaging Apps Leak Sensitive Data to Push Notification Services

Like most modern software, secure messaging apps rely on third-party components to implement important app functionality. Although this practice reduces engineering costs, it also introduces the risk of inadvertent privacy breaches due to misconfiguration errors or incomplete documentation. Our research investigated secure messaging apps' usage of Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging …