Apple wouldn't be doing this—at considerable expense—if they didn't consider such attacks to be plausible within the relevant lifetime of currently intercepted and retained messages (ie. not necessarily today, but within the statute of limitations of any crime you might be confessing to in an iMessage).
@cstross Agreed with the general premise, but a part of the justification might also be that they can then use this as a marketing #talkingpoint, that their systems are so much more secure than the competition, ahead of anyone else, and in line with the image they're trying to cultivate that people on iPhones don't get hit by viruses or trojans? #optics being everything these days it seems.
I love how every generation thinks they can beat aging and ageism. Maybe we should take all generations seriously and not just the ones we think are cool. You loose out when you descriminate.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: It’s time to rethink what we call ‘old age’ https://flip.it/GvOivo#talkingpoint#discussion#oldage#ageism