How Apple can read your iMessages
The iPhone is among one of the best known and most popular mobile phones on the planet. Hundreds of millions of people use the iPhone to communicate with friends, family and coworkers each and every day. One of the most popular ways to communicate on the iPhone is to send an iMessage. The difference between a standard text message and sent iMessage iMessage app from Apple is that the sent messages are encrypted from end to end.
After the recent allegations that Apple was cooperating with the NSA and sharing iMessages users to known program monitoring as the PRISM, Apple responded by publicly saying in a statement on its website that iMessages, "are protected by an encryption end to end, so no one but the sender and receiver can see or read. " The statement added: "Apple can not decrypt the data."
according to a ZDNet article, recent research and demonstrations by researchers Quarkslab blew security iMessage Apple open. At a conference Hack In The Box Quarkslab Kuala Lumpur, they demonstrated that, due to the lack of certificate pinning, "Apple can technically read your iMessages when they want."
The hacker attack involves a man in the middle scenario where the hacker can intercept and read iMessages sent between two phones or they can take a step further and change the messages before they reach their destination without another iPhone user experience. Quarkslab currently offers an application known as "Protect IMTM" (available for download on GitHub) to patch the vulnerability, but it can not be installed on a device or iOS6 iOS 7 jailbroken.
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