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This is an forensic analysis, meaning this is research into what police etc. needs to do when they want to ex-filtrate data from confiscated or otherwise compromised devices.
I am a bit torn on such kind of research. Obviously it isn't done to improve security, but at least when it is openly published like this it can help app developers to look into potential security issues.
At the very least it helps to make people aware that these days a compromised device is often the most dangerous data-leak (at least for activists) and Signal for example does not help against that type of tread at all, in fact due to it's use of phone numbers as identifiers it is a huge risk factor.