After the San Bernardino affair, it seems that the American secret services are again coming up against the safeties of the iPhone. They envisage -in the near future- to prevent their agency employees to use iMessage.
Indeed, on July 13, Congress was briefed by the DHS Inspector General (Homeland Security – Department of Homeland Security) that the Secret Service had lost several messages relating to the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Since July 29, the latter have been considering abandoning iMessage to prevent the problem from happening again in the future.
Thereby, Anthony Guglielmi the spokesperson for the secret services specifies that they are studying this question very closely. Director James Murray commissioned a benchmarking study to further examine the feasibility of disabling iMessage and whether it could have any operational impacts
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In fact, the Secret Service’s implementation of a new mobile device management platform may have caused the iMessages issue. The latter would make it possible to manage e-mails, images and other data centrally.
In contrast, storing iMessages in the security enclave was apparently incompatible with the new backup system. Thus many agents had not succeeded – before the migration – in manually saving certain messages, these were destroyed in the process.
But let us specify all the same that in this very sensitive affair, certain Apple services (in particular iCloud) have also made it possible to find and prosecute certain authors of this insurrectionlike the man who threw his iPhone into the sea while protecting himself…
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