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Apple also controls the OS on both sides, and could silently push a "special" update to virtually anyone. If e.g. Abu Bakr al Baghdadi had an iPhone and was co
by rdl 12y ago
Apple also controls the OS on both sides, and could silently push a "special" update to virtually anyone. If e.g. Abu Bakr al Baghdadi had an iPhone and was communicating with operations, and that phone could be identified, it'd be a race at NSA/TAO between compelling or technically subverting Apple to push such an update (if there is no other better solution), and the incoming Hellfire missile from CIA.
That said, iMessage in design and even implementation is utterly amazing compared to the normal quality of such systems from big companies. It is by far the most secure large-scale easy to use communications system available today. I think WhatsApp/Moxie-enhanced will probably surpass it when available, but that's an add-on application. iMessage is an out of the box default.
- dublinben 12y agoNo matter how good iMessage may be, it's still a walled garden. It only provides privacy for the relatively privileged owners of iOS devices.
- anonbanker 12y ago> Abu Bakr al Baghdadi had an iPhone and was communicating with operations, I don't know what is more stunning; the blatant racism, or the fact that nobody seems to care about it.
- Khaine 12y agoHow is that racist?
- DanBC 12y agoAnonbanker doesn't know who Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. So, if you think it's just some made up name it does come across as racist.
- rdl 12y agoYeah, it's the name of the leader of Islamic State. That NSA and CIA are competing to kill him is just a statement of fact (which he'd gladly repeat if asked); it's not particularly racist, and doesn't even say anything about agreeing with the targeting decision.
- anonbanker 12y agoDanBC speaks truth, and I stand with egg on my face for playing the racism card, when it turned out I was actually the racist one for assuming the name was a joke.
- gavron 12y agoI don't know what is more stunning, that you don't know who the man is OR how to use a semicolon OR that nobody else seems to care about neither.