---
id: 4581
title: "iMessage Privacy"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/imessage-privacy.html"
published_at: "2013-10-16T22:00:00Z"
tags: ["cryptography", "privacy", "apple", "surveillance", "e2ee", "imessage"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4581"
lang: en
---

# iMessage Privacy

## Summary

iMessage privacy analysed: messages are end-to-end encrypted, but Apple controls the key infrastructure and could read conversations on request or at will, and holds the metadata anyway; HITB 2013.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2013-10-16T22:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/imessage-privacy.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4581