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Yeah but even if they use e2e, which btw was found to be flawed at the protocol design level by prof. Matthew Greene and his team, they also automatically back-
by mtgx 8y ago
Yeah but even if they use e2e, which btw was found to be flawed at the protocol design level by prof. Matthew Greene and his team, they also automatically back-up the messages to iCloud with no way to disable that without disabling the whole of icloud. It would sure be nice if they changed that.
- mediocrejoker 8y agoCan you elaborate on what you mean by "e2e was found to be flawed"? Is the paper available online?
- coolspot 8y agoCommenter probably meant this research[0]. [0] - https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/03/21/attack-of-week-apple-imessage/ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/03/21/attack-o...
- threeseed 8y agoThere is the option in Settings to disable storing Messages and Backups in iCloud.
- sneak 8y ago...which does not affect the storing of Messages in device backups into iCloud.
- djrogers 8y agoThis is categorically and demonstrably false. Backing up to iCloud is disabled by default, as is Messages in iCloud. Either can be enabled or disabled as desired with no ill effect on your device or the rest of iCloud usage.
- sneak 8y agoiCloud backup is on by default.
- djrogers 8y agoNo - setting up an iPhone from new doesn’t even require an iCloud account. If you set up iCloud it will enable backups, but even then you can disable them without disabling ‘all of icloud’ as GP claims.
- sneak 8y agoThe fact that iCloud is not required to activate does not change the fact that iCloud is on by default and iCloud backup is also on by default.