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Apple Announces 'Groundbreaking' New Security Protocol for iMessage
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how did android hurt you so bad?
Oh thank goodness. My kitty cat pictures and dinner plans from 5 years ago are safe from prying eyes.
I don't put anything over a text message I don't expect someone to be able to read somewhere down the road. Same thing with talking on the phone.
If it needs to be secret, we meet in person.
I don't put anything over a text message I don't expect someone to be able to read somewhere down the road. Same thing with talking on the phone.
If it needs to be secret, we meet in person.
By existing.
The Signal protocol is the Gold standard for E2EE communication. I'll stick with that thanks.
Lol, it's already defeated by the fact that Apple have the encryption keys for automatically enabled iCloud backups for every user who hasn't opted into Advanced Data Protection. So 99% of the people you're iMessaging with will store everything they and you send in the backup that three-letter-organizations can demand Apple provide them with.
You could have literal unbreakable cryptography and it wouldn't matter when you store it unencrypted in those backups.
To talk with my friends in Europe and Central America it is WhatsApp even if they have an iPhone. One friend used iMessage for a while but found there were times they were getting charged for messages so they stopped using it
It's not as simple as that. The new PQ3 is built using established and ongoing community efforts beyond Apple, with layers added. This is Apple's contribution back to the community to enhance the Post-Quantum encryption efforts already in play. Signal was the first app to use such a protocol, and instead of just following Signal, Apple is leap-frogging them to a whole new version that they've helped to develop.
Go back and read that very comprehensive blog post to see that.
Man, this is the stuff I love to see Apple announce! I wish we saw more of this!
Yep. Apple refuses to separate iMessage from text/SMS, and FaceTime from phone calls, and links them to phone numbers and/or email addresses. It's a mess, and always has been.
still unsure what your confusion around the meaning of "client" has anything to do with this discussion. my reply is about RCS being cross platform, not about RCS being a "client". why do you care what the client is?
with RCS you will be able to message iOS from android (cross platform). android will be using their own client (google messages) and on iPhone the RCS will be built into the "Messages" client. any other platform will be able to adopt RCS into their own CLIENT as they wish to enable cross platform texting.
F*c*book software is not allowed on any of my devices.
Nobody is talking to me with What'scrapp.
True - and I've always wondered about this. If I have ADP on - and use iCloud Backup - but the recipient does not use ADP and also uses iCloud Backup, my assumption is that a request for the correspondences of the recipient would also include my responses. Is that so? I've tried to encourage people to turn on ADP since the iCloud Backup exception (vs Messages in iCloud) was always sketchy to me - but g'luck getting your average contact to do that.
This is worth at least an additional $1T in market cap for $AAPL, and on the upside, I think it could even take $AAPL market cap to $10T within the year.
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I really don't mind the government looking at messages of my cat photos on iMessage - i have nothing to hide, and I wish the Apple engineers had time instead to make Apple reply work on Apple Music vs the web!
As others as have, it's not easier or more intuitive to use, it's just cross platform
Why would they care? Two years ago: NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms
Apple as always is fashionably late.
It’ll never change as long as iMessage remains an Apple-only club.
And at least update it for Ventura: You get cutting edge privacy: but if you have recent hardware (he said typing on a 2017 MBP).ok cool now release a cross platform client so your users can be secure no matter who they talk to
I’m in Europe and I just checked my Messages app. The latest iMessage there was the 24th thread and that was spam. The latest legit iMessage was at #33. Actual communication happens mostly in WhatsApp where we don’t have to care if the other party is using an iPhone or an Android.
You can delete and report junk in one action. I only occasionally get spam texts now.
I know. That was not the main point though. Even if all iMessages I received were spam, the total count would still be rather irrelevant.
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