Comment on Nothing's iMessage solution might not be as secure as we thought
8ender@lemmy.world 11 months agoMy man everyone and their favourite state sponsored hacking group is trying to break iMessage, of course there’s going to be a shed load of CVEs compared to other less popular tools.
Rustmilian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The main problem with iMessage is the limited audits. It’s a very complex application and with that complexity comes higher risk for vulnerabilities to slip through. It’d be way less of an issue if it was at least source available so more people could audit it, instead of just whomever gets permission from Apple.
Like Apple’s bounty system is great and all, but it’s not as effective as for example being able to directly scrutinize signals open source codebase.
The problem with apples approach is that even if someone finds and reports the vulnerability for the bounty, that still means that vulnerability has made it into the production code and thus made it onto consumer devices. Unlike an open codebase where the vulnerable is more likely to be caught before it reaches consumer devices.
You can argue that the being openly available isn’t necessary indictive of being secure, which is true, but it’s certainly more favorable and for signal it’s worked out very well. Also there’s plenty of state sponsored hacking groups trying to break signal.