iMessage shown to have encryption flaw

Discussion article here:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/johns-hopkins-researchers-discovered-encryption-flaw-in-apples-imessage/2016/03/20/a323f9a0-eca7-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html

Apparently, the research has found:

"It took a few months, but they succeeded, targeting phones that were not using the latest operating system on iMessage, which launched in 2011.

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