<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>On Nov 5, 2014, at 9:12 PM, <a href="mailto:zaki@manian.org">zaki@manian.org</a> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr">My understanding is that the mechanism Apple would have to use to actively MITM an account is the same mechanism as adding a new device to a user's iMessage account. This produces a notification on the user's other devices that effectively notify when an additional public key is registered for the user name.</p><p dir="ltr">Obviously this is all proprietary software but as designed, an active MITM of iMessage messages would be visible to the recipient as an unexpected "device added" message. <br></p></blockquote><div>I'm pretty sure that is not true.</div><div><br></div><div>I have not seen any documentation stating that Apple is forced to send such notifications, but if you have, please do share it.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Greg Slepak</div><div><div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;">--</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;">Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;"> with the NSA.</span>
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