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Apple Just Confirmed Governments Are Spying on People’s Phones With Push Notifications (www.vice.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Apple Just Confirmed Governments Are Spying on People’s Phones With Push Notifications::A U.S. senator warned that governments are spying on push notification data in a letter, which Apple confirmed.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

The Senators from Oregon really don't get enough accolades for what they do

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Sure, encrypt notifications and just show our users garbled text they have to type it into a their computer to read.

Real solution there Apple.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

No problem. Just store the private key in your eyes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I expect you're kidding, because it's hard to believe someone made it onto Lemmy without knowing this, but here goes anyway:

They never said "don't decrypt client side".

Lots of things you probably use every day is end-to-end encryption.

HTTPS in your browser uses TLS to ensure that the content you receive is encrypted on its way to you and that it hasn't been tampered with on the way (confidentiality and integrity).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I know, but the article is written in a way that makes it look like they mean push notifications as they appear on your screen.

For those who read the article the comment parodies it, everyone else can make fun of apple or me.