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I took a photo at a Rams game last Monday, (they beat the Giants 28-6), and found myself looking past the players dressed in yellow. Everyone in the stadium came to watch the Super Bowl hopefuls. But look at how many people are standing just off the field in blue- [...]

A client deletes a text and figures the problem went with it. Many times, that’s true. Sometimes it isn’t. Deleted messages can leave traces in places nobody thinks to check: backups, synced devices, cloud accounts, app data, notifications, and of course the phone of the person on the other end [...]

During a workplace investigation, one screenshot showed a single message from a supervisor: "Cut her off before Monday." Standing alone, it sounds like retaliation, or perhaps an instruction to fire someone. But an examination of the device revealed the message right before it: “Her admin access to the old system [...]

Every major technology goes through the same curve: we fear it, we apply it everywhere, and then we have to figure out how to stop it from breaking our business. Remember when people feared the internet? Same curve, different decade. Lately, AI has been elevated from a tool to a [...]

A recent Delaware case involving the WWE merger is a pretty good reminder. Senior executives were communicating through Signal. After preservation obligations had arisen, disappearing-message settings were used and, in some instances, changed so messages would disappear within hours. The Delaware Court of Chancery found that evidence had been destroyed [...]