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So stop using Android or switch to WhatsApp. Simple.
by xenospn 7y ago
So stop using Android or switch to WhatsApp. Simple.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoOr iMessages. Or Signal.
- lern_too_spel 7y agoiMessage has a backdoor for Apple in the keyserver that a government can compel Apple to use for a wiretap. https://www.lawfareblog.com/iphones-fbi-and-going-dark https://www.lawfareblog.com/iphones-fbi-and-going-dark The existence of this backdoor (in combination with the fact that iCloud and iMessage are operated by a PRC-controlled business in China) is likely the reason iMessage is not blocked in China.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoIt does not permit the same dragnet to occur as using bare SMS messages.
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- lern_too_spel 7y agoIt makes possible a dragnet of iMessage communications in China. In the US, the Fourth Amendment prevents a dragnet on SMS messages (and on iMessage).
- viraptor 7y agoWhat does Android have to do with wiretaps?
- solotronics 7y agothe default SMS message protocol is unencrypted
- viraptor 7y agoNo, SMS is unencrypted on all platforms. I think you meant that iOS may sometimes send encrypted messages to other numbers. But that's not a great solution for a common e2e.
- xenospn 7y agoAndroid phones send SMS messages.
- viraptor 7y agoSo does every mobile phone.
- blackoil 7y agoYou mean stop using SMS, switch to WhatsApp.
- SapporoChris 7y agoWhatsApp is now owned by Facebook. I still remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana... and consider Whatsapp to be now compromised. And don't forget that the app was hacked last May. I'm interested in learning why this is still a recommended application for secure messaging.