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bitstream [soylentnews.org] writes:

Researchers at John Hopkins University have found a bug in Apple Inc instant messaging client iMessage [wikipedia.org] that can be exploited by a attackers to decrypt photos and videos sent as secured messages [washingtonpost.com]. "Even Apple, with all their skills -- and they have terrific cryptographers -- wasn't able to quite get this right," said Matthew D. Green, whose team of graduate students at the aforementioned university found the bug. "So it scares me that we're having this conversation about adding back doors to encryption [slashdot.org] when we can't even get basic encryption right." Apple acknowledged the bug to The Washington Post, adding that it had "partially" fixed the glitch with iOS 9 software update last year. Apple assures that it will offer a complete patch for the bug with iOS 9.3, which will be released on Monday.

I guess the proprietary nature of the client software helped in vetting the code and that upgrading to the next CPU hog and jailbreak resistant software fixes everything(tm) ..

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