[robryan]

Possible it will go nowhere. How can Apple for example provide a backdoor for imessage which isn't a systemic weakness?

[daemin]

The intelligence service will request a special version of the software which will store the contents unencrypted, or decrypt the existing contents, or send information to a different server.

Then they will coerce a telecommunications provider to install this application on the targets machine (says nothing about having it installed on everybody's machine accidentally or otherwise).

Then they shall profit.

[brokenmachine]

They could be compelled to send firmware updates only to specific phones with a new version of imessage that doesn't perform end-to-end encryption.

[s369610]

have the app store send a special version of the app or system update to robryan that as well as renders the message on the screen also sends it to the gov.

[manicdee]

The Government simply defines systemic weakness to be something that doesn’t happen when Apple is coerced to introduce an easily exploitable hole in their security for all products.

I wish I was being facetious.

[boyter]

Considering that isn’t even defined in the bill that just passed I have little hope it will save it.

[brokenmachine]

> have little hope it will save it.

have little hope what will save what?