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Title: Apple may have accidentally made it almost impossible for governments to ban iMessage Post by: HCK on December 14, 2025, 04:05:03 pm Apple may have accidentally made it almost impossible for governments to ban iMessage
<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2022/06/iMessage-edit-victim.png?w=1600)</div><p>Authoritarian governments don’t like their citizens being able to have <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">private[/url] conversations using end-to-end encrypted messaging apps. This is the reason <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/04/russia-blocks-facetime-in-the-country-citing-use-in-terrorist-attacks/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Russia has just banned FaceTime[/url], but it was surprising <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/imessage/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">iMessage[/url] had escaped a ban.</p> <p>A potential reason for this has now been discovered: <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/aapl/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple[/url] may have accidentally made it almost impossible for a government to ban its end-to-end encrypted text messaging app …</p> <a data-layer-pagetype="post" data-layer-postcategory="aapl,facetime,imessage,privacy" data-layer-viewtype="unknown" data-post-id="1031914" href="https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/10/apple-may-have-accidentally-made-it-almost-impossible-for-governments-to-ban-imessage/#more-1031914" class="more-link">more…[/url] Source: Apple may have accidentally made it almost impossible for governments to ban iMessage (https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/10/apple-may-have-accidentally-made-it-almost-impossible-for-governments-to-ban-imessage/) |