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Re:Can Apple read your iMessages? by dvanduzer on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @10:21AM (#5946203)
That's not what's happening with the "load earlier messages" button at all. The long term iMessages history is stored in an unencrypted sqlite database on the phone (which is included, unencrypted, in local iTunes backups).
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Re:Can Apple read your iMessages? by r00fus on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @12:00PM (#5946864)
Local backups can be encrypted (mine are). Also it's not necessary to use cloud backups (I don't).

Therefore, my iMessage history is secure (I fully understand that my message recipients may expose my individual messages, but my copy is safe).

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Re:Can Apple read your iMessages? by dvanduzer on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @02:35PM (#5948038)
The fact that it is possible to perform encryption on the entire backup file does not change the fact that many people are (wrongly) speculating about things which are easily verifiable.
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