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Did I miss something? Why do you think the DEA can break iMessage encryption?

• nitrogen 12y ago
  One doesn't need to break any encryption if one has other means of accessing the plaintext. There's a difference between disinformation and misinformation. Even the truth, told selectively, can be disinformative.
  • kylek 12y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout
  • andreyf 12y ago
    One should be careful not to live in or spread in paranoia where everything is a plot to deceive. For anyone looking at the source material and judging reasonably, there was no deception. Perhaps some journalists got a little carried away, but I'd blame that on the pressures of their industry, not malice. The original DEA slide that was leaked says something very simple: traditional interception techniques do not work on end-to-end encrypted message services (e.g. iMessage). They can't just ask (or get a judge to ask) a law-enforcement-friendly cellular provider to tap the line and CC them on anything someone does. This is true for BBM and WebRTC and many other ways of communicating, as well.
• throwaway7767 12y ago
  They can surely force by legal means Apple to give you the wrong key for a recipient, thereby defeating the end-to-end protection. This is the danger of the new wave of security tools that want to "solve" the hard problems (such as key verification) of secure messaging. The hard problems are still there, they're usually just bypassed by centralising trust, which creates a very tempting target for government legal pressure.