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Perspective shift, there's an axis of responsibility: Hacker - It's my stuff and I'm responsible for how it works. User - I'm using this and it's the suppliers
by invig 3y ago
Perspective shift, there's an axis of responsibility:
Hacker - It's my stuff and I'm responsible for how it works.
User - I'm using this and it's the suppliers job to make sure it works.
Where you sit on this spectrum from Hacker to User defines your opinion on this.
Neither end is wrong, they just want different things.
- xg15 3y agoBut how is the user of an iPhone being compromised if someone else can use the iMessage protocol?
- invig 3y agoThe sender is trusting that Apple isn’t capturing the message content in the iMessages app after it gets decrypted so it can be shown to the receiver. In a closed system the sender trusts Apple and the person they’re sending to. If you are sending to someone receiving in some other app, you have to trust the receiver, Apple, and who ever makes the thing that is being used to display the decrypted message. You don’t even know what app you’re trusting as the sender. The further you go down this rabbit hole the more ergh it all feels, but actually being able to trust the whole chain from your mind to someone else’s over the internet is quite hard.