Comment by bmicraft
5 days ago
> With it turned on, keys are on your device, Apple doesn't have them and can't use them and it covers all the main stuff - photos, messages, notes, etc.
Or so they say. Has that actually been proven?
5 days ago
> With it turned on, keys are on your device, Apple doesn't have them and can't use them and it covers all the main stuff - photos, messages, notes, etc.
Or so they say. Has that actually been proven?
It's impossible to prove a negative, like "Apple doesn't have a backdoor". One can prove the existence of a backdoor by reverse-engineering suspicious code or network traffic, but not the nonexistence without poring over every byte of machine code, and quite a lot of the hardware too.
This is not unique to Apple, it's impossible to prove any system is free of a backdoor, including Linux distributions (see: the xz backdoor, or "Reflections on trusting trust"), unless you hand-crafted your whole smartphone from raw silicon.
You can raise that gripe with even something like signal. Sure, it's open source, but when was the last time someone reproducibility built it?
People reproducibly build Signal all the time. There's a bug right now that makes the play store version differ from the one you get by downloading off their website/build from source, but you can examine the differences to see they're minor.
>People reproducibly build Signal all the time
source? Is there a site that tracks this, or only shows up when someone raises an issue on github?
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