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This is trash and Apple is trash. 1) They explicitly state that they're going to keep an eye on the hashes of your files, allowing them to nuke anything they d
by NoImmatureAdHom 4y ago
This is trash and Apple is trash.
1) They explicitly state that they're going to keep an eye on the hashes of your files, allowing them to nuke anything they don't like from orbit system-wide. They still know what you have in cases where someone else has it and they know the plaintext. They're definitely going to scan what you keep in their cloud. It will start with kiddie porn, but then it'll be that plus terrorist documents (and who decides what that is???), and then illegal music and movies, and then...
2) It's all implemented with closed-source mysteryware. Who the fuck knows what it's doing? You've got to trust their pinky-swear, and you shouldn't. It probably works as it is described until it receives the special wink from Apple's servers, and then it sends along your private keys (possibly using an exploit they put there on purpose). If it's not verifiable (open-source and reproducible builds), it's a pinky swear.
3) This is your reminder that your iMessage isn't actually E2EE, they have a lot of the keys on their own servers.
These are all things they could fix, but don't. And they won't fix them because they don't actually give a damn about your privacy and security. We should all demand open-source, reproducibly-built encryption software.