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Our Encryption is still theoretically sound. There was an attempt made to do something very similar called the Clipper Chip back in 1993 but it failed. Snowden

• londons_explore 2y ago
  All the big providers seem to have this odd model of "We use E2E encryption, but we do unencrypted backups by default". iMessage and Whatsapp are both this. Since you only need one participant in a conversation to not enable backup encryption, I would guess that law enforcement has cleartext access to over 99% of messages sent by americans. The next question is do they only have access to certain messages on request, or do they get a near real time feed. Things like this[1] suggest they had a real time feed of all messages, and I doubt they would be allowed to lose that ability. [1]: https://blog.encrypt.me/2013/11/05/ssl-added-and-removed-here-nsa-smiley/ https://blog.encrypt.me/2013/11/05/ssl-added-and-removed-her...
  • Marsymars 2y ago
    > iMessage and Whatsapp are both this. Since you only need one participant in a conversation to not enable backup encryption, I would guess that law enforcement has cleartext access to over 99% of messages sent by americans. I'd guess less only because Apple is so stingy on iCloud storage. A majority of iOS users I know don't have iMessage backup enabled because they're not willing to pay for additional iCloud storage.