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> Note also that iMessage has a crypto backdoor maintained by Apple for the FBI Describing iMessage as having an encryption back door is disingenuous at best.
by giantrobot 4y ago
> Note also that iMessage has a crypto backdoor maintained by Apple for the FBI
Describing iMessage as having an encryption back door is disingenuous at best. There's no known encryption back doors in iMessage. As far as can be determined iMessage is fully E2EE.
There is however a caveat that the unencrypted local messages backed up to iCloud can be turned over to LEAs/governments. This caveat holds for any unencrypted data synced to iCloud. It's no different than your e-mails sitting in your iCloud mail account. Disabling syncing of Messages with iCloud closes this hole.
- sneak 4y ago> Disabling syncing of Messages with iCloud closes this hole. It does not. The people you iMessage with still have it turned on, because it is on by default, and Apple will get it from those devices instead.
- giantrobot 4y agoWhich is the same as any other E2EE system. Your OpSec is only as good as the worst OpSec as whoever you communicate with. Pretending this is an Apple issue is absurd.
- sneak 4y agoThis is also false! Signal stores messages and keys in iOS storage classes that do not leave the device and are not included in backups.