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To me, the specific and carefully explained experiment is the big contribution here. In other comment threads I'd heard the opposite: that when new iOS devices
by fpgeek 13y ago
To me, the specific and carefully explained experiment is the big contribution here.
In other comment threads I'd heard the opposite: that when new iOS devices were activated, they didn't get access to past iMessage threads, just future ones. Perhaps that's because there's a "new device" activation flow and a special "replacement device" one. But that doesn't matter. Your iMessages are only as secure as the weakest link. OP has found a pretty weak one here.
- rainforest 13y agoDoesn't the experiment just show that Apple is storing the iMessages in some form that they can decrypt? The article mentions iCloud backup - it's possible iCloud takes a copy of decrypted messages first. This might be feasible given it has to back up SMS messages too. Perhaps a better experiment would be to see if messages are readable after a restore (with and without password changes) if the device isn't backed up to iCloud.