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>Specifically, investigators have examined how the Apple Watch works better with the iPhone than with other brands, as well as how Apple locks competitors out o
by s3r3nity 3y ago
>Specifically, investigators have examined how the Apple Watch works better with the iPhone than with other brands, as well as how Apple locks competitors out of its iMessage service.
I'm suspicious that much of this is a ploy to weaken the tight security controls & encrypted data so that the US government (and potentially other governments?) can get easier access to surveillance data on US citizens.
- paxys 3y agoThere are dozens of messaging apps out there with equal or better encryption than iMessage and also multi OS support. Vendor lock-in doesn't mean better security.
- wharvle 3y agoQuality of security aside, I'd be curious which encrypted messaging apps have the highest quantity of (encrypted—some support unencrypted, also, as Messages does) messages flowing through them in a given day—for, say, US users, as that's the jurisdiction of the government whose motives are being questioned, so seems the most relevant. One can imagine a case of a particular app drawing law enforcement's and/or intelligence services' ire not because it's the best, but because they're seeing a lot more conversations they wish they could read, but can't (easily), going over that channel than any other single one.
- zamadatix 3y agoI'd say Facebook Messenger is probably near the top of that in the US now that they've defaulted to end to end encryption.
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- apapapa 3y agoApple is a joke when it comes to security... They are all speech.
- nozzlegear 3y agoWhy do you say that?
- apapapa 3y agoI don't know how you could come up to any other conclusion is you watch the news and listen to what Apple says....
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