I'm not sure that every American company, by law, must implement a backdoor, as you imply. The last time I checked, iMessage was a very secure platform with no known vulnerabilities — which in fact has made Apple struggle with US agencies more than a few times.
FL > On 14-01-2017, at 10:02, carlo von lynX <l...@time.to.get.psyced.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 07:26:29PM -0500, Sebastian Benthall wrote: >> https://whispersystems.org/blog/there-is-no-whatsapp-backdoor/ >>>> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/13/ > > I've also read > http://www.golem.de/news/schluesselaustausch-aufregung-um-angebliche-whatsapp-backdoor-1701-125571.html > and https://tobi.rocks/pdf/whatsappslides.pdf > and to me it seems like all of the articles are > technically describing the same procedure. > The difference is only in the framing. > > For Facebook it is a necessity that people not be > bothered by key changes, for anyone in the libtech > business it is an alarming signal that MITM is > technicaly possible by default and users must be > specifically aware of the issue to avoid it. > > But why is anyone even expecting any true privacy > from an American proprietary product? Have the > PRISM and MUSCULAR programs suddenly been discontinued? > Has Freedom Act amended NSLs also for non-Americans? > How could Facebook afford not to pump everything they > can get into XKEYSCORE as before? Why did the European > Supreme Court rule that the US is not a safe harbor > for EU citizen data? Did I miss any recent developments? > > Is it the general strategy to have people debate whether > there is a backdoor when by law Whatsapp MUST have some > backdoor? > > -- > E-mail is public! Talk to me in private using encryption: > http://loupsycedyglgamf.onion/LynX/ > irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/lynX > https://psyced.org:34443/LynX/ > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu.
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