Which is why his twitter thing felt so odd and uncharacteristic especially coming from a professor of cryptography nonetheless. AOP has been around for years. If he's made the concession to use an iPhone because that's where people are, why freak out about some new feature like you were born yesterday? This is Apple, you know they don't document shit. Go look at core crypto... it's doc-gen function signatures and structs. They don't even tell you how big their chacha20-poly1305 nonce is. The only reason they have a security handbook is so that the government would approve iPhone use. Why not look at the prior art out there surrounding the protocol published by people who are concerned like you are and weigh in as a security expert instead of having a twitter fit and then throwing HN under the bus when they point this shit out to you and say "hmm he's kinda overreacting this isn't news and actually the protocol is pretty good".
I totally agree this totally feels like someone making noise to get attention even though the subject is closer to a mole hill approaches mountain in stature.
I just think the attack "smart guy" for using iOS/Android meme is lame.
I mean I advocate for open systems that can be audited and verified and I still use an iPhone as a daily too although I've been exploring the pinephone on my other sim. I get it. That wasn't my intention to attack the smart guy for using an iPhone. More just like "what do you expect"?
