The title says it all.
Nice overview of how iMessage security works, in a way that not even Apple can intercept messages. Interesting in view of WhatsApp's recent announcement of encryption and all the FBI / hacking hoopla.
This is crazy. BlackBerry built a backdoor to its BlackBerry messages service AND shared it with the Canadian police. This is a huge breach of trust from a company that advertised its secure devices, with millions of customers who bought BlackBerries partly due to that reason.
If the Canadian government had it, what makes anyone think that other governments didn't have access to it? They may have obtained it through RIM's (now BlackBerry) cooperation or without through hacking or old-school espionage. Think about it, in the early and mid 90's practically all heads of state including Obama used BBM.
They deserve to be sued by their former customers. This underscores why Apple and other tech companies need to resist against building such backdoors into their products.
Anyone interested in the Apple vs FBI debate or in encryption/privacy/security in general in how it relates to government and law enforcement should read this.
Could it be that they were full of it the whole time? (answer: yes)
Addressing the idiocy and ignorance of officials asking for an "encryption backdoor" in the name of security. It's like telling the bank to leave a coy of the key to the vault under the welcome mat.
EFF is going to start providing free TLS encryption certificates. This is great.
This is great news for personal privacy and security, even when most users don't know anything about this and don't know that they care.
Law enforcement officials and even a Washington Post editorial are criticizing Apple's use of full encryption in iOS 8 and forward where not even they can break it. This is good for privacy and all these people are doing is spread FUD or displaying incredible levels of ignorance (or both).