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It's the latter - Apple will let the authorities access messages. Telegram will not. And simply blocking the Telegram website does not mean that the app won't c
by greatfire 11y ago
It's the latter - Apple will let the authorities access messages. Telegram will not. And simply blocking the Telegram website does not mean that the app won't continue to function in China. Which is why the authorities likely decided to launch a DDoS attack, so they could silence the human rights lawyers that were using it to communicate.
- happyscrappy 11y ago>It's the latter - Apple will let the authorities access messages. Do you have a source for that? It would seem to be huge news.
- sosuke 11y agoCan they even do that? I thought they used end-to-end encryption. I guess we just have to take them at their word though. http://daringfireball.net/2013/10/imessage_encryption http://daringfireball.net/2013/10/imessage_encryption
- higherpurpose 11y agoWell Apple backs-up iMessages by default anyway. So even if it is end-to-end, they still have a copy of everything on their servers, unless you disable the iMessage syncing. Also, just like Whatsapp's "end-to-end" crypto, just because they use it now doesn't mean they can't disable it at any time without you being aware of it. That's the danger of proprietary closed-source software.