An internal Drug Enforcement Administration document seen by CNET discusses a February 2013 criminal investigation and warns that because of the use of encryption, “it is impossible to intercept iMessages between two Apple devices” even with a court order approved by a federal judge.
iMessage encryption too good for the Feds
Maybe that’s what they want you to think!
Get Anonymous on it. 😉
exactly. Anyone that believes this should look into the property I’m currently selling. wink, wink, nudge, nudge
iMessage DDoS happened already, was it them?
I only heard of people crashing iMessage with long strings, not hacking messages.
On those rare occasions I have to read cnet, looking at the comments reminds me to sink into despair for humanity.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight
Comparing to SMS, iMessage must seem impenetrable. But I’m sure they’ll find a way… or legally require Apple to add one.
That would suck!
It would. I like my privacy.
Ack, paralyzed! I can’t decide if I should joke about hackers or iCloud stability.
The real story is how INSECURE traditional SMS is. US carriers have tried to do as little as possible when it comes to user privacy and readily bend over backwards for government snooping.
Apple is not really a state-of-the-art in security company, they’re doing the due diligence that any reasonable communications provider should be doing.
This just means Apple needs to added into the FISA
bill provision to protect Americans from suing Apple and
letting Feds wiretap on demand.
No big deal.
Shouldn’t Google have been the iconoclast gadget nerds’ hero for this distinction?