Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks

Re:Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware att... by __jonas on Thursday April 11, 2024 @03:21PM (#40005801)

I'm in Europe, I haven't encountered anyone in my life who has used iMessage (everyone uses WhatsApp, now also Telegram/Signal), so I don't really have a use for it, when I wanted to try the weird AR emoji / heartbeat reaction message things with my partner we noticed we both had iMessage turned off, I guess it's like a setting that maybe we skipped during the phone setup? Not sure if it's on by default for some people.

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Re:Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware att... by plufz on Thursday April 11, 2024 @05:30PM (#40007032)

Where in Europe is that? Surprising to me (Swedish).

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Re:Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware att... by __jonas on Thursday April 11, 2024 @06:05PM (#40007313)

I've lived in Germany and the UK, I guess I wrongly assumed it was like this everywhere in Europe. Might also be related to the social environment.

I am noticing, the social circle I am currently in has now largely moved to Telegram, whereas in other places it's 100% WhatsApp.

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Re:Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware att... by zarzavat on Thursday April 11, 2024 @09:41PM (#40008663)

Telegram itself seems like one big honeypot, if people are moving from WhatsApp to Telegram that’s quite a retrograde step.

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Re:Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware att... by sneak on Friday April 12, 2024 @01:39AM (#40009691)

Telegram is not end to end encrypted. The service provider can read the messages.

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