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EvilMole

  • May 22, 2023
  • Joined May 19, 2023
  • Aaron Just a word of caution on this: I don't know which country the OP is in, but it's not true that every jurisdiction requires a court order to access much of that information, particularly metadata rather than the content of SMS's. Until the Supreme Court ruling in Carpenter vs US in 2018, law enforcement could -- and did -- access that data without a court order. As another example, in Ireland there was a law in 2011 which gave police access to any phone metadata without a warrant, something which was only ruled illegal last year. So do be careful saying the state requires court orders, because even in democratic countries that's not always true!

    • Renewably3997 It depends ultimately on what your biggest priorities are in terms of privacy and security.

      If you move to Graphene and can't persuade people to use something that's E2E encrypted then your messaging is going to be less secure, because it will default to SMS. There's not much you can do about that. iMessage is E2E encrypted, and, if you enable Advanced Data Protection in iCloud, the backups are also encrypted. If message security is the most important thing to you, and you can't get people to move to Signal, you will be better off staying on iOS.

      HOWEVER... if you are more concerned with device security and privacy than just messaging, Graphene is a better option. To caveat this, Apple has done a lot of good work in this area. iOS is generally more secure than stock Android, and, thanks to features like App Tracking Transparency, more private - except, of course, to Apple itself. But Graphene is, in my opinion, more secure and more focused on privacy.