Comment by ajr0
4 months ago
this seems interesting and I (very briefly) installed to check it out but never actually used.
I just noticed there is no IOS version? bit strange no?
also no update on their blog since 2023?
would be interested to read whats going on recently, is there another place to look?
They explain the iOS situation here: https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/FAQ#will-t...
Is there an iOS alternative?
iOS doesn't allow apps to stay active in the background to listen for messages like Android can. And since Briar very much does not rely on the vendor push services that is a showstopper.
Indeed, this is very much a limitation for all apps on iOS that don't want to rely on centralised services, such as a push notification server other than Apple's.
See also: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/685525
I noted that as well.
Honestly given the target audience and the limited dev resources I (as an iOS user) do think focusing on Android is probably the right choice here.
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I’m not sure where you’re pulling “backdoored” from, but if Apple markets their devices as private then it seems reasonable that end users expect a private device.
There's probably not a backdoor in the device. At least I haven't seen any news about that. But.
Apple has been an NSA PRISM-partner since 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM#/media/File:Prism_slide_...
Also, apparently they had 100% success rate installing malware on the devices: https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/12/30/the-nsa-rep...
It's been close to 12 years since Snowden. Who knows how the defense has improved. Who knows how the offense has improved.
> if Apple markets their devices as private then it seems reasonable
Not really.
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