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Right. But if you look at the slide why would companies slowly get "added" rather than just implicitly be being spied upon? I mean Apple only got added in 2011

• dragonwriter 13y ago
  > But if you look at the slide why would companies slowly get "added" rather than just implicitly be being spied upon? Well, if they are intercepting data through backbones, and much of that data is encrypted, they need to defeat the encryption in a durable way to get a clear feed. While I don't suggest that this is what was going on, if it was, there would be know reason that each provider would necessarily be broken at the same time; there would likely both be prioritization of resources directed at each provider, differences in the security of each provider, and chance involved as to when each was broken.
• Cthulhu_ 13y ago
  > I mean Apple only got added in 2011. If what you're saying is true then what does this date refer to? Growing popularity and usage of icloud and apple's own messaging system? iirc, before icloud, Apple didn't have that much user data.
• bbbbbaaaaa 13y ago
  iMessage debuted in 2011.