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No. iMessage and Facetime use end-to-end encryption in China, probably among only a few apps allowed to do so.
by jessepasley 3y ago
No. iMessage and Facetime use end-to-end encryption in China, probably among only a few apps allowed to do so.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoThats really weird, kinda like how Steam existed for so long in China.
- gruez 3y agoSteam has e2e?
- brucethemoose2 3y agoNo, but it was a massive unregulated catalog of games. It would be like hosting American Netflix in China.
- actionfromafar 3y agoIt has horrible slanderous counter-revolutionary and despicably immoral anti-chinese content.
- tsunamifury 3y agoKeys are managed by the government.
- gjsman-1000 3y agoiCloud Keys are managed by a Chinese company, so in practice, yes. iPhone E2E stuff like iMessage, by definition, does not have keys that anyone else (including the government) possess. Though it hardly matters when ~90% of iPhone users likely have iCloud Backup on. In which case their messages will be backed up to the cloud to where the government could get keys.
- pretext-1 3y agoSource? IIRC Apple was hosting data from Chinese citizens in China to comply with regulation but still keeping encryption keys outside of China.
- tsunamifury 3y agoThey gave it over. Apple does not care about privacy the way it has trained American consumer to think it does.
- gjsman-1000 3y agoWell, to be fair, the alternative is to simply leave China entirely. Considering how much malware and spyware the average Chinese phone has... Better a compromised iPhone than some of those things.
- tsunamifury 3y agoThis is… such a bad train of thought. If you don’t know apple turned over private text messages of congressional officials and NYTimes reporters WITHOUT protest or question to the Trump Administration. And before you say otherwise Google and Microsoft both did not. They do not care about privacy, it’s all marketing.
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