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Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned : https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/governments-spying-apple-google-users-through-push-notifications-us-senator-2023-12-06/

That's why it's important to offer your users alternatives.

#PushNotifications

#pushnotifications
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UnifiedPush
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In addition, we strongly advise developers to encrypt their push notifications, recommending #WebPush or to adopt a sync-on-push strategy (which is what Signal does). Follow RFC8291, forget about the old draft protocol abandoned 7 years ago!
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Rich Felker
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Shouldn't the protocol mandate encrypting notifications or even disallow any payload in the notification, instead forcing it to be nothing but a wake-up ping?
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