Apple Says It Would Need to Re-Engineer iMessage to Exploit It

Apple has issued a comment on research from QuarksLab that claims 'Apple can read your iMessages if they choose to, or if they are required to do so by a government order.'


QuarksLab presented a white paper at the Hack in the Box conference detailing how a man-in-the-middle attack would work to decrypt messages. They note that since Apple controls ESS servers, and all iMessages are routed to Apple's PUSH servers, Apple is able to perform MITM:
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