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Lol. No. BlackBerry was in the same position, and it was absolutely backdoored from a crypto perspective. The FBI doesn’t cry about iPhones anymore, so they’ve
by Spooky23 2y ago
Lol. No.
BlackBerry was in the same position, and it was absolutely backdoored from a crypto perspective. The FBI doesn’t cry about iPhones anymore, so they’ve likely (along with other entities) identified alternate methods to access communications.
The use of these sorts of actions are about avoiding accountability, not security. Again, BlackBerry is the exemplar — PIN messaging was tied to a device, not a user. People 20 years ago were doing these signal chats with BlackBerry devices, swapping them around physically to build these groups.
Even then, people in these positions of power weren’t as reckless and incompetent. In addition to the reporter, one of the participants was on a civilian phone in Russia. The FSB or whomever does their signals intelligence got a real-time feed of intelligence, military operations, etc. The American pilots were put at risk, and Israeli spies were burned.
- kingkongjaffa 2y ago> The FBI doesn’t cry about iPhones Is there any evidence that iPhones have some security exploit that Apple + Three letter agencies can use?
- walterbell 2y agoHave you looked at the list of security issues fixed by Apple? They contain multiple zero-day exploits found in the wild. This week’s releases: 100+ security issues of varying severity fixed in macOS, 50+ issues fixed in iOS. Citizen Lab has some reports on exploits.
- redeux 2y ago> so they’ve likely (along with other entities) identified alternate methods to access communications. > Is there any evidence that iPhones have some security exploit that Apple + Three letter agencies can use? GP never made that claim.
- walterbell 2y agoDoes anyone remember which US gov entity funded Signal and Open Whisper Systems? Signal chairman is ex-CEO of Wikipedia. Signal CEO estimated annual costs at $50MM.
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