Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage

• tristar@lemmyfly.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is there zero risk or do you think there is zero risk? Text messages can absolutely be intercepted by your service provider

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  • danielfgom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t you think you’re a bit paranoid? Does the service provider care to know that you sent a message to your friend saying “great party last”? Or to your wife, “pick up bread and milk please”?

    I’m quite sure they are not wasting their time doing that.

    If what you need to say is so secret, you should not be using iMessage, SMS or WhatsApp but something stronger like Signal, Matrix etc

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    • tristar@lemmyfly.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t think it’s paranoid to not want any intermediary to know what you’re talking about, even if all you’re talking about is innocuous things like groceries.

      Besides, they don’t have to “waste time” on anything. They’ve got computers to collect it all.

      Of course, like you said, Signal or Matrix are potential solutions for that, but you still need to get both sides to agree on using them. SMS have the advantage that everyone has a phone number and can thus use them. Upgrading to RCS will secure this insecure-yet-very-popular medium.

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      • danielfgom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I understand that but as we know from Edward Snowden, the CIA literally have direct server access to all of Apple servers, Google servers, Amazon servers and Microsoft servers to name a few.

        So they can just log in and view your iMessages at anytime. Or have the system collect them. This was part of the Patriot Act that requires the tech companies to make sure the government can view all of this at any time to identify terrorists.

        That means the server definitely has the encryption key to your conversations. However you are protected from having a snooper snoop your line using snoop tools because the connection to the server is encrypted

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