Actually, I'm not. See the post above, you claimed "BlackBerry always retained the capability to read your message traffic. Apple does not." [1], and I was responding to just that: Apple can read your message traffic. You yourself have proved it in the above reply: iMessage neither allows key-signing (nor even key verification, I must add!), and the Central Authority iMessage users have to trust are Apple themselves. It also has supreme control over all updates that are shipped to your phone, so even if someone does decompile and verify his build of iMessage, it doesn't mean that the targeted user was shipped the same version at all. So let's agree to put to rest your claim that Apple can't read your messages, OK? (note, I don't claim that it does, just that it can)
Now, being NOT paranoid, I'm actually not angry at it, not in the slightest. The downsides of a real privacy and security have a very serious and negative impact on user experience, so for most users the simple capability to sync all their messages from a central server (like Telegram does, "the most secure messenger", hahaha) far outweighs the dangers of being spied upon.
What irks me is the sheepish trust that people place on people who promise them "don't worry, you are super safe, without any downsides of real security, and people buy into it. The prime offender, of course, is Telegram, where users rarely, if ever, use the "Secret chats", but still think that they have the most protected messenger. Not concerning themselves that the features they like most (capability to access from the web, instant sync of messages on any device) comes from it being the least protected of any major messenger.
Actually, I'm not. See the post above, you claimed "BlackBerry always retained the capability to read your message traffic. Apple does not." [1], and I was responding to just that: Apple can read your message traffic. You yourself have proved it in the above reply: iMessage neither allows key-signing (nor even key verification, I must add!), and the Central Authority iMessage users have to trust are Apple themselves. It also has supreme control over all updates that are shipped to your phone, so even if someone does decompile and verify his build of iMessage, it doesn't mean that the targeted user was shipped the same version at all. So let's agree to put to rest your claim that Apple can't read your messages, OK? (note, I don't claim that it does, just that it can)
Now, being NOT paranoid, I'm actually not angry at it, not in the slightest. The downsides of a real privacy and security have a very serious and negative impact on user experience, so for most users the simple capability to sync all their messages from a central server (like Telegram does, "the most secure messenger", hahaha) far outweighs the dangers of being spied upon.
What irks me is the sheepish trust that people place on people who promise them "don't worry, you are super safe, without any downsides of real security, and people buy into it. The prime offender, of course, is Telegram, where users rarely, if ever, use the "Secret chats", but still think that they have the most protected messenger. Not concerning themselves that the features they like most (capability to access from the web, instant sync of messages on any device) comes from it being the least protected of any major messenger.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24054249