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The DOJ Puts Apple's iMessage Encryption in the Antitrust Crosshairs
Privacy and security are an Apple selling point. But the DOJ's new antitrust lawsuit argues that Apple selectively embraces privacy and security features in ways that hurt competition—and users.
The DOJ's complaint also homes in on Apple's approach to security and privacy, arguing that it uses those principles as an excuse for its anticompetitive practices, yet jettisons them whenever they might hurt the bottom line. “It’s kind of crazy that we’re now in 2024 and there still isn't an easy, encrypted, high-quality way for something as simple as a text between an iPhone and an Android,” Migicovsky told WIRED in January. Even as Apple has faced accusations of hoarding iMessage's security properties to the detriment of smartphone owners worldwide, it's only continued to improve those features: In February it upgraded iMessage to use new cryptographic algorithms designed to be immune to quantum codebreaking, and last October it added Contact Key Verification, a feature designed to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks that spoof intended contacts to intercept messages.
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