• abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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    They moved the storage of encryption keys for Chinese users to servers in China

    No they didn’t. iMessage can only be decrypted by keys stored in the secure enclave on your device.

    There are some things that the Chinese government can access. The contents of messages isn’t one of them.

    And as for Facetime… those calls aren’t recorded at all. Not sure how a legal order is supposed to allow access to data that doesn’t even exist.

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      I agree that’s not how it works in most places but I don’t assume to know the inner working of a Chinese iphone or the version of iOS it’s running. If there is a financial incentive apple will bend for China while also saying it didn’t.

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        The way Facetime works is extensively documented and thoroughly audited by third parties - many of whom publish their findings.

        If China had a back door into Facetime, I suspect I’d know about it as someone who follows these things pretty closely.

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          Right but none of it is open source so being extensively documented doesn’t mean much and what I said still stands. You are assuming that what apple has told you is the truth with zero 3rd party audits of the underlying code.