U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she’s not a fan of “green texts on iPhones” and that it’s “time to break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly,” but statistics show the tech giant doesn’t have exclusive c…
  • @[email protected]English
    2•7 months ago

    First of all proprietary encryption is BS which should be equated to obfuscation instead of encryption.

    Second, I think I’ve addressed this:

    but their ads etc have pretty consistent emotional messages. Yes, they do endorse it.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•7 months ago

        This is just straight wrong. iMessage on android has worked by connecting to a remote Mac, which then connects to imessage. The protocol is locked to their hardware.

        And, even if there was a true open source reimplimplementation of iMessage, that would say nothing about the security of Apple’s proprietary implementation of the iMessage end to end encryption.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•7 months ago

        This is like if a neural net had been fed Apple ads and Apple fans’ weird ideas on computing.

        Try to understand that imitating the way Apple PR talks doesn’t sound geeky, it sounds awfully ignorant.