{"id":18179,"date":"2017-06-15T14:39:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T18:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18179"},"modified":"2017-08-08T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T15:15:11","slug":"apple-is-trying-to-make-imessages-more-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/15\/apple-is-trying-to-make-imessages-more-private\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Is Trying to Make iMessages More Private"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

But, as several security and privacy researchers warned over the years, there’s always been a major, somewhat overlooked catch<\/a>: If you back up iMessages to iCloud, then Apple—or authorities who can force the company to turn the back ups over—can still read those messages, which to some extent defeats the purpose of the encryption.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Starting with the upcoming iOS11 all your conversations in iMessage will be automatically synchronized across your iPad, iPhone, Mac and whatever other iGizmo you own, he said. As anyone who uses iMessage knows, that’s something that you can’t do right now. And it leads to annoyances such as having to manually delete messages on all your devices if you want to get rid of an embarrassing message, or having to restore a full backup if you want old iMessages on a newer iDevice.<\/p>\n

But if iMessages, which are supposed to be end-to-end encrypted, now sync, doesn’t that mean Apple can decrypt and read them at some point? Apple says that soon won’t be the case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I look forward to hearing how this works and whether it also affects backups.<\/p>\n

Previously: iMessage End-to-End Encryption<\/a>, Can Apple Read Your iMessages?<\/a>, iOS Security White Paper<\/a> (Nick Heer<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n

Update (2017-08-07): Mark Rowe<\/a> (also Steven Sinofsky<\/a>):<\/p>\n

\n

Huh. The “Messages in iCloud” feature has been removed in iOS 11 beta 5 and will ship in a future software update to iOS 11.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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