“It’s easier, and more comfortable, for #Google to argue that it’s all about the #GreenBubbles. The hard truth is that #iPhones and #iOS are simply better overall.”
It really is nice that #Mastodon is featured on the App Store today.
I've been noticing that a few folks at #Apple have become more enthusiastic about the #Fediverse during the last 6 months, to the point that #iMessage now recognizes Mastodon links.
Again, more speculation from my part, but it wouldn't surprise me if Apple was considering more ways to bring Fediverse adoption to the masses.
This article by me at Forbes has now been updated to include news of the iOS 16.6 drop into the developer program channel and the first real sign that iMessage contact key verification could be a reality this year after all.
THIS has to be a zero-day somehow! There's NO #API for this on the #iPhone! If #Microsoft is using one, it's a backdoor that MUST be closed!!! A #WindowsPC sending an #iMessage is one step from a virus on #Windows doing something to ALL your #iMessages!
@leo: Does Steve (GRC) have any inkling as to the severity of this?
Over the past year, I’ve received dozens of spear #phishing/#smishing SMS text messages pretending to be from my employer’s CEO or another executive. Today I got my first one marked as an #iMessage (#Apple’s exclusive messaging service—the “blue bubbles” in your #iPhone Messages app).
This is pretty troubling—it means #scammers are getting past Apple’s defenses in addition to abusing the porous patchwork of SMS providers and networks.
Have you switched to a proper end-to-end encrypted messenger app yet?
The new year is a good time to do that!
Try @threemaapp or @session and let anyone out there using Telegram or Meta (Facebook) Messenger or WhatsApp or iMessage/SMS know that there are better options available now.