Is the DEA Lying About iMessage Security?

First time accepted submitter snobody writes "Recently, an article was posted on Slashdot about the claim that law enforcement made about being frustrated by their inability to decrypt messages using Apple's iMessage. However, this article on Techdirt suggests that the DEA may be spewing out disinformation. As the Techdirt article says, if you switch to a new iDevice, you still are able to access your old iMessages, suggesting that Apple has the key somewhere in the cloud. Thus, if law enforcement goes directly to Apple, they should be able to get the key."

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Having seen my wife turn into a paranoid schizophrenic by smoking joints, ultimately leading to our divorce and extreme trauma for our children - something that would be unlikely to happen with alcohol, I disagree with you most strenuously. Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean going to jail is the answer, but pretending that smoking joints is harmless really doesn't help.