Comment by mmoustafa
3 days ago
> All encryption is end-to-end, if you’re not picky about the ends.
This reminds of how Apple iMessage is E2E encrypted, but Apple runs on-device content detection that pings their servers, which you can't possibly even think of disabling. [1][2]
[1] https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-n... [2] Investigation in Beeper/PyPush discord for iMessage spam blocking
[1] is supposedly debunked: https://pawisoon.medium.com/debunked-the-truth-about-mediaan...
> the network traffic sent and received by mediaanalysisd was found to be empty and appears to be a bug.
I say "supposedly debunked" because empty traffic doesn't mean there's nothing going on. It could just be a file deemed safe. But then the author said:
> The network call that raised concerns is a bug. Apple has since released macOS 13.2, which has fixed this issue, and the process no longer makes calls to Apple servers
What’s the concern here? The blog post you linked does not really support its claims with evidence.
They're actually two separate claims, one of which the blogpost does support. The other one is seemingly ought to be supported by some conversations on a Discord server.
The concern is obvious though, not sure what's unclear about that: it's a bit pointless to have E2EE, if the adversary has full access to one of the ends anyways.