>The court documents, filed by the Justice Department and obtained by Forbes, showed screenshots of Signal messages between men allegedly discussing an illegal weapons trade and attempted murder.

I translate that to 'an FBI informant involved in the criminal conspiracy saved screenshots of the messages'

I don't think most users expect their chat app to be protected if the police seize their phone.

The main concern is about intercepting messages between 2 parties or mass exploiting the history stored by the provider.

Sure, for some case, it can be important, but that's a much more difficult and rare threat model to address.

This title in this article is aimed at generating clicks. The flaw that's described here applies to all other apps, including Google Chrome, Telegram, WhatsApp, literally any app on your phone.