DEA Says Apple's iMessage is “Impossible to Intercept”

[Maura]

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iDownload Blog reports on an intriguing revelation today from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), admitting that it finds Apple’s iMessage service “impossible to intercept,” mainly because of the very strong iCloud encryption. CNET, which posted the original story, says that it has seen an internal DEA memo that refers to a criminal investigation in February of this year, and which goes on to say that it is “impossible to intercept iMessages between two Apple devices,” even when the would-be interceptor has a court order approved by a federal judge. Apparently the encryption used by Apple for the iMessage service is so strong that it has completely prevented DEA operatives from eavesdropping on conversations and messages from people they are investigating. There is one exception, however, as iDownload Blog notes that it is sometimes possible to intercept messages from an Apple device to a non-Apple device, “depending on where the intercept is placed.”[/FONT]

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[FONT=&quot]Source:[/FONT] Two years later, DEA learns the government can?t break into Apple?s iMessage

 

[xtreme]

If i wanted to put drug dealers and traffickers at ease I might release a very similar story. its brilliant