![]() Echoes here of the controversy when an Apple exec dismissed opening iMessage up to other platforms on competition grounds. It hasn’t taken long after Apple’s RCS announcement, for its defensive position on iMessage and lessening its sticky nature when it comes to iPhone versus Android to come to light once again. And until that results in a fix, iMessage will continue to offer its full security just to Apple users. Instead, it seems more likely that Apple will work with the GSMA mobile standards body to strengthen the security of the base RCS itself-realistically, though, that process of driving towards any form of end-to-end encryption, with all the stakeholders and Google’s own deployment, will take years and will be wrapped in complexity. Apple users should then be able to choose whether to use fully encrypted RCS or iMessage as their default. Google has long pressured Apple to adopt RCS, eroding the seeing green bubble / blue bubble hierarchy Apple does have the option to put pressure back on Google to open its RCS end-to-end encryption to integrate with iMessage’s adoption of the protocol. “Apple will go as far as offering a level of encryption to conform,” Moore says, “but ultimately it wants everyone to be pure iMessage users with Apple products only.” That “level of encryption” is no better than Google provided before its move to end-to-end encryption-it’s not fully secure. The plea to Apple is to engage with Google on a cross-platform encryption architecture that would properly resolve this issue for billions of users. As does iMessage right now-outside that walled garden. Telegram remains an outlier, with its lack of end-to-end encryption belying its security PR messaging. ![]() Facebook puts in place various security measures to monitor underage accounts, and in my view the focus should be on those accounts, flagging messaging in and out and ever, perhaps, changing privacy measures accordingly.īut what this move does mean is that the world’s three largest non-Chinese messaging platforms, WhatsApp, Google Messages and Facebook Messenger, now end-top-end encrypt by default and essentially democratize access to this level or peer-to-peer security. ![]() I have been vocally critical of Messenger’s lack of encryption, albeit there is a genuine issue with Messenger encryption versus WhatsApp or Signal, given its linkage to a social media platform, where users can be searched, profiled and messaged by strangers. However, the latter is a price to pay given that the vast majority of messaging platforms offer encryption to the masses.” “This will make law enforcement that much harder. “Meta’s tight integration into Facebook’s user profiles make it crucial to have untampered communications,” ESET’s cyber guru Jake Moore told me. ![]() This means that Meta, Apple’s long-standing nemesis, will be offering two hyper-scale, end-to-end encrypted, cross-platform messaging apps when Apple itself has none, while still not letting its users change the default device messaging app from iMessage. Four years after being first announced, Facebook is finally end-to-end encrypting its Facebook Messenger app, despite huge pressure from governments and security agencies to hold back. And with timing being everything, Apple’s news was quickly followed by Zuckerberg’s, which gets to the very heart of that iMessage vulnerability. ![]()
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