I would say that if you were to design it upfront with these services for separation of concern, you could design the data format to put the parts in clearly separate segments. With the current data format that all the pre-existing iMessage clients use, they probably need to unpack it a bit before al the parts are separated.
When Herbert Hoover was in charge of the FBI, they were already collecting data on school children. 😆
I like the John Oliver “Government Surveillance” episode where Snowden is interviewed. (“Last Week Tonight,” Season 2, Episode 8)
I like the point you develop. From DOS to MOS !! I’d say at this point people are caring less about bells, whistles and eye candy and would gladly appreciate a more basic “Jeep style” stealth communication option. Let’s hope somewhere out there is a genius that can not only create but also successfully deploy something like this into this tyrannical privacy hostile environment.
Because the whole message isn‘t encrypted. I am not sure how it works but possibly metadata and attachements isn’t encrypted. Also they have the keys to the kingdom so..
Likely it decrypts them first in a safe environment already on your device and only after making sure it's safe passes on to other areas of the OS. That's the "blast door" - sort of "inner door" protecting your house in case someone leaves a bomb on your porch.
www.computerworld.com
For one thing, Snowden revealed that the govt infiltrates the companies that make these product and encryption schemes. for another he also revealed that they can also simply infiltrate devices and collect at the other end - even an end to end decrypted message has to be decrypted at the other end, for the recipient to read it.
When folks who have no idea how to create a successful smartphone looked at smartphones, they were shocked that having physical access to a smartphone DECREASES IT’S SECURITY!!!security for both the iPhone And Android has been rated insecure by leading security experts
When cryptographers looked at iOS and Android security, they weren’t happy
In recent years, the feds have stopped asking for a workaround to get past Apple security. Why? It turns out that iOS, along with Android, is simply not as secure as those companies suggested.
My sig says that I tried, but I had to give up. It's a ton of effort for one person, and I'm not a genius.
How am I really suppose to trust that my messages aren't being passed through a government server
My design takes even more of a hardline approach than those three, which I have looked at. They all have centralized servers that are somewhat trusted. My clients don't trust the server whatsoever, not even to manage identities. The server is very dumb, mostly a packet router, and the regular user pool would use community-run servers (though they might not know this).
