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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Are Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime really secure from U.S. government’s prying eyes? – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home


“To distance itself from allegations of collaborating with the secret surveillance program PRISM, Apple issued a statement on Sunday night that denies it granted the National Security Agency direct access to its servers,” Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports for Mashable. “The company went one step further: Apple claimed it couldn’t turn over certain data to the U.S. government, even if it wanted to. ‘Conversations which take place over iMessage and FaceTime are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can see or read them,’ the statement reads. ‘Apple cannot decrypt that data.’”


Are Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime really secure from U.S. government’s prying eyes? – MacDailyNews - Welcome Home

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