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Apparently that protection does not include protection from the US government. iMessage offers excellent privacy of message content, but no 'pen register' prot
by KennyBlanken 4y ago
Apparently that protection does not include protection from the US government.
iMessage offers excellent privacy of message content, but no 'pen register' protection.
Phone device security is very strong, but it's made largely moot if you turn on iCloud backups (which is the default behavior if you provide an Apple ID. I'm not sure there's even a way to stop the initial backup from happening?)
Apple reportedly doesn't offer e2ee on iCloud, or even encrypted device backups, out of compromise with the federal government...specifically the FBI, CIA, and NSA.
Why might people care about this? Criminalizing abortion and miscarriages...and what looks like at the very least a re-recognizing, and possibly criminalization, of LGBTQ relationships.
- eastbound 4y agoTrue, Apple could stop nagging about backing up into iCloud. Apple should offer other sorts of backups, and offline iCloud systems.
- threeseed 4y agoThey do offer other sorts of backups. You can backup to a Mac or PC. And it's offline and encrypted.
- kube-system 4y agoWhen Apple says "state actor threats" they're not talking about future-state theoretical breaches of domestic privacy by your own government. Apple is always going to follow the law. They're talking about the types of situations where data from people's phones is used to commit international criminal activity, espionage, assassinations, etc.
- germandiago 4y agoI know it is a very polemic topic but I genuinely think abortion is a crime, not a right. Not anything against LGBTQ or the like, though.