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That's rational, but the point he's making is that this system obliterates the only defense we have had or could have against such activity: end-to-end encrypti
by lvs 5y ago
That's rational, but the point he's making is that this system obliterates the only defense we have had or could have against such activity: end-to-end encryption. This approach owns the endpoint.
- shuckles 5y ago…in the same way any existing feature of iOS that makes device data available to Apple (eg iCloud Backup) “owns” the endpoint, no? What’s to stop a malicious Apple from turning on iCloud Backup for all its users and hoovering up your Signal messages database and iCloud Keychain?
- sneak 5y agoNothing. iOS even defaults autoupdate to on, so Apple could do this without your interaction today.