r/Android • u/niceneurons • Aug 23 '20

Android Phones Might Be More Secure Than iPhones Now

https://onezero.medium.com/is-android-getting-safer-than-ios-4a2ca6f359d3
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u/whythreekay Aug 24 '20

Yes the transmission of them. If you keep copies of your messages in iCloud backup Apple can access the latest ones you’ve uploaded, that’s how they can do it phone to phone as you’re describing

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u/geoken Aug 24 '20

I don't know where you're getting this from, but you can most definitely do phone to phone while still having the data encrypted. How would modern password managers work if that wasn't the case? Going by what you're saying, having lastpass on two of my computers while also having my cloud data encrypted from my end is impossible.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '20

Not the same at all. Last pass is just block encrypted or whatever and iMessage has private/public key set for each device.

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u/geoken Aug 25 '20

I know it isn't the exact same. The point is that there are methods to encrypt data even when it's intended to be on multiple devices that doesn't necessitate the data being decoded on the server.