Re:iMessage, Apple Music used by NSO Pegasus to attack journ...
by gjsman-1000 on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:05PM
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You are trying to say that iMessage does not have forward secrecy.
That's true, and is a perfectly legitimate reason to use Signal.
I'm saying that the OP was dissing iMessage because of the Pegasus zero-click exploit, and was saying that switching to Signal gives zero guarantees of protecting you from that, because it likely has it's own zero-click exploits, especially because it doesn't attempt to sandbox unlike iMessage does with the flawed BlastDoor.
That's true, and is a perfectly legitimate reason to use Signal.
I'm saying that the OP was dissing iMessage because of the Pegasus zero-click exploit, and was saying that switching to Signal gives zero guarantees of protecting you from that, because it likely has it's own zero-click exploits, especially because it doesn't attempt to sandbox unlike iMessage does with the flawed BlastDoor.