In order to function, the iMessage servers are necessarily exposed to traffic from the entire Internet.
If connecting to them using their own protocols from a third-party app is enough to render iMessage 'insecure' as Apple claims, it is already insecure and nobody should use it. If you can connect to a service such that it grants you access in a security-destroying way, the problem is not with the 3rd party.
If their only defense is "that's illegal according to a very broad reading of the CFAA we like when we're the plaintiffs!" then that's just further admission that their protocol is insecure.
But it's probably not insecure. They just don't want to lose a market-entrenching edge and are willing to buy their interpretation of the law to defend that.
That might be plausible, if it weren't so clear they're picking on TikTok because it's owned by a Chinese company and the folks motivating this nonsense would prefer to expropriate it for themselves.
I hardly think Zuck will quake in his shoes, much less change behavior as a result.
Don't leave out DeSantis. Actually, never mind, go ahead.
In order to function, the iMessage servers are necessarily exposed to traffic from the entire Internet. If connecting to them using their own protocols from a third-party app is enough to render iMessage 'insecure' as Apple claims, it is already insecure and nobody should use it. If you can connect to a service such that it grants you access in a security-destroying way, the problem is not with the 3rd party. If their only defense is "that's illegal according to a very broad reading of the CFAA we like when we're the plaintiffs!" then that's just further admission that their protocol is insecure. But it's probably not insecure. They just don't want to lose a market-entrenching edge and are willing to buy their interpretation of the law to defend that.
It would be nice to have the kind of money required to get any lawyer at all to file a suit this awful.
That might be plausible, if it weren't so clear they're picking on TikTok because it's owned by a Chinese company and the folks motivating this nonsense would prefer to expropriate it for themselves. I hardly think Zuck will quake in his shoes, much less change behavior as a result.
Worrying about TikTok alone in this environment is an awful lot like shooting down balloons while satellites fly overhead.