The security of basic text messages is something to take up with your cellular service provider. For secure, i.e. encrypted messages Apple has iMessages and there are others.
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Apple Shares New 'Inside Joke' Privacy-Focused Video Highlighting iMessage Encryption
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ok, there is one can much you can take for that message sound..
Its ain't THAT funny,, but i do like the end where everyone else is starring.
Only between other iOS users..
Its ain't THAT funny,, but i do like the end where everyone else is starring.
Only between other iOS users..
One has two options for texting. One could use their number or their email address. The number would belong to the cell provider but would the email address from iCloud also belong to the cell provider..?
If you think he meant something other than what he said, kindly take it up with him, it’s none of my business.
Regarding end to end encryption, the link I provided covers that nicely, check it out.
I definitely think your conflating. The difference being, this was a glitch that wasn’t meant to be malicious by Apple, it wasn’t invasion of privacy like they’re attempting to ‘gain your information intentionally’. Sure it happened, but was it really an invasion of privacy? Or can you prove that there any victims coming forward that they feel vulnerable after that specific glitch? I’m guessing not.
The reason I mentioned android earlier, is it’s far less secure and when you take companies like Google, that intentionally want to data mine there customers, that’s not something that Apple would do, not when they put the consumers privacy/confidentiality first, even if they did make a mistake, they immediately rectified it.
If you got that many secrets just turn icloud backup off and do your own encrypted backups on your computer....
Oh no not the Android therapy channel
You can’t text by email address. You can text by phone number. If you’re using your email address you’re using iMessage.
She reminds me so much of all the women in my family that laughs at jokes. This is like so typical of my mother, sister and all my aunties.
I feel those that find the ad annoying are like those in the commercial staring ... annoyed and confused waiting for the punch line in a silent movie ... cause they can’t see or know why she’s laughing. Lol jokes on them.
Would love to know what everyone has to hide to require all this 'privacy'.
Anyone with half a brain would realise that most peoples lives have 'leaked' around on the internet for quite some time.
And furthermore, if you think that a private encrypted message can't be intercepted and read over the air is deluded.
Another marketing con.
Anyone with half a brain would realise that most peoples lives have 'leaked' around on the internet for quite some time.
And furthermore, if you think that a private encrypted message can't be intercepted and read over the air is deluded.
Another marketing con.
You have to understand that more people out there are using Android than iPhone, so its more likely that you will SMS someone without an iphone than use iMessage.
SMS use is an option in the US since the carriers there do not charge for it. Other places in the world, you get charged per SMS. Every SMS you send, your monthly bill increases.
I'm confident that iCloud backups are encrypted, but with a key held by Apple. That's different than saying they are "not encrypted". No cloud company would survive if they didn't encrypt their server storage. And you can turn off Backups, and do encrypted backups through iTunes. So not mumbo jumbo, but choice.
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Yah, that doesn't apply here, as this is about iMessage.
But you're right... carriers get away with criminal handling of SMS messages. I could log into my carrier account and read all of the text messages that I sent and received. I had no idea my carrier was storing them.
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If it's blue, it's been delivered by iMessage, fully encrypted. This supports all of the phone numbers and email addresses associated with an iCloud account.
If it's green, it's been delivered by your carrier as an SMS message. Likely not encrypted. Only messages sent to phone numbers will send this way.
Being leaked on the internet is different than being thrown wily-nily on the internet.
And no I don’t think iMessages can just be hacked and be read real-time while in transit.
iCloud is encrypted - perhaps what you’re thinking off is that you don’t have your own private key.
They can subpoena Apple to decrypt your data. This differs from your individual phone where Apple can’t. And the government was asking that they facilitate unlocking phones by way of allowing brute force password guessing.
I forgot about SMS costing tons of money elsewhere, and yeah, that makes iMessage not a good solution. I live in the US and have mostly iPhone-using friends, so the worldwide stats don't matter to me personally.
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"DON'T buy the iPhone X" was the next recommended video by him, and the one after was promoting some Android phone called the Elaphone (which people said is trash in the comments section) so idk. Maybe he's fair overall, but I'm not going to watch enough videos to find out.
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Some guy shot himself in the foot with that FaceTime bug and sued for it. Kinda funny, but really it wasn't his fault, but also it's not a privacy issue, like you said.
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Fabulous one....
GOOD FIND!!!
(roll eyes)
Hey, I have a fun challenge! =)
Got one that has a gd thing to do with iMessage automatically sending/receiving fully encrypted messages between iOS devices, you know... like the article & this conversation is about, or was this all you could find- this bug that was squashed in like 1 day & literally caused zero trouble for anyone whatsoever?
How in any way is this one year three month old video relevant to this conversation/discussion.?
No, end-to-end means the message is encrypted on the sender's phone, sent out, received and decrypted on the receivers phone. Everything/everybody that is in between only sees gibberish. The only way someone else would be able to see it would be for either the sender or the receiver to allow access to their phone or tablet by someone else.
They generally don't shutdown unexpectedly anyway.Nah you’re good, unless you foolishly disable the protection Apple built into iOS years ago to prevent such unexpected shutdown due to worn, degraded batteries.
With Android however, your phone may well shutdown unexpectedly while texting on the privacy-free SMS platform
The protection you are saying that Apple built into iOS years ago(well not that long ago actually) to prevent unexpected shutdowns due to worn batteries? Android had something more advanced years before apple. It's called Battery Current Limit(BCL).
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You said : 0% trouble, energy, or effort.
That video clearly proved you wrong.
And objectively speaking, installing a simple app is not much of an effort or trouble anyway.
Signal Private Messenger is only a 38mb install and it gives you end-to-end encryption on any mobile device or desktop computer as it's cross platform.
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