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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by 0xffff2 on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:48PM (#25874073)
>cryptographically shattered iMessage

Could you expand on this? I did a quick search but I don't see anything relevant that's more recent than 2016.

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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by maqp on Saturday January 23, 2021 @03:58AM (#25880786)
See my comment from 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21425897

It's still relevant.

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Re:Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client by srgpqt on Friday January 22, 2021 @01:16PM (#25874370)
iCloud backups contain iMessage encryption keys so the messages can be decrypted and read by Apple.
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