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Alexander Bilz
Personal blog · alexbilz.com/postsecurityprogramming
Alexander Bilz writes I am Alex Bilz, a personal blog at alexbilz.com about security and programming. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Recovering Conversations from Microsoft Teams' Desktop Client”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-08, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on forensic artifacts, which covers how messaging apps like Signal Desktop store data. One commenter cites it for Signal Desktop keeping messages in a readable SQLite database.
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Most-linked posts?
- Recovering Conversations from Microsoft Teams' Desktop Client2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-18
What Hacker News says?
It might not please you to learn that Signal Desktop stores your messages in a trivially-read SQLite database. But it may prevent you from trying to lock the client with a pin. https://www.alexbilz.com/post/2021-06-07-forensic-artifacts-...
Comment linking /post/2021-06-07-forensic-artifacts-signal-desktop/
on “Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames”Submitted Recovering Conversations from Microsoft Teams' Desktop Client as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Auditing Large-Scale GCP Environments with InSpec/CINC as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smbscan – The Better Alternative to Smbmap? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Forensic Gold Mine: Forensic Analysis of the Microsoft Teams Desktop Client as a story · 1 points
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