The surprise privacy warning that has suddenly hit iPhone users worldwide
Here’s where it gets complicated. iMessage is secured by end-to-end encryption, the idea being that the keys to decrypt messages between you and those you message areshared between you. That stops anyone intercepting your content. But in a bizarre twist, Apple stores a copy of those encryption keys in that iCloud backup, which it can access. That means the end-to-end encryption is actually fairly pointless.
Unsurprisingly, Signal comes out best on the document: “No message content, [just] data and time a user registered [and] last date a user’s connectivity to the service.” Signal avoids all on-device backup options and famously doesn’t capture any metadata at all. Essentially, if the data doesn’t exist, it can’t be provided.. “Signal doesn’t have access to your messages; your chat list; your groups; your contacts; your stickers; your profile name or avatar; or even the GIFs you search for.
Google has been gently pressing Apple to get onboard this SMS v2 upgrade, and we saw more of that recently with a
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