If You Can’t Break Crypto, Break the Client: Recovery of Plaintext iMessage Data
For the depressing truth on the crypto wars:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7757978" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7757978</a> (Crypto won't save you either [PDF])<p>...or to paraphrase Jeff Atwood: "I love crypto, it tells me what part of the system not to bother attacking"