On Nov 5, 2014, at 9:00 PM, Joseph Bonneau <[email protected]> wrote:

> Cloud backups can defeat this but we decided to consider this a separate 
> problem-any tool can be defeated if you backup the plaintext somewhere in the 
> cloud. If you think this is a bad feature encourage users to to disable it.

OK, but since it is enabled by default (an opt-out rather than an opt-in, if my 
memory serves me correctly), shouldn't that checkbox be taken away from Apple, 
or at the very least, have some type of asterisk next to it?

As-is, people will walk away with an incorrect understanding of the security of 
Apple's iMessages. I assume it is not EFF's intent to mislead people.

> Apple's encryption is end-to-end.

What definition of end-to-end are you using? Apple is capable of decrypting 
iMessages sent between users [1], so sorry, but I don't see how that is 
end-to-end.

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/001065.html

Kind regards,
Greg Slepak

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