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That’s inaccurate. iMessage, Keychain and a few other services are end to end encrypted with keys stored only in the secure elements of each iPhone. Apple canno
by abalone 8y ago
That’s inaccurate. iMessage, Keychain and a few other services are end to end encrypted with keys stored only in the secure elements of each iPhone. Apple cannot access this data even under subpoena and neither can anyone who controls their data centers (China). They don’t have those keys.
What the article you cited refers to is more general iCloud data, including backups, which is vulnerable to subpoena/govts. They do have those keys. But it is significant that China permits iMessage to operate even though it is E2EE.
More details here on what is E2EE and what is not: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303