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Musk will absolutely have access to any data you send over his network. I would not trust Musk within a light year of my data.

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This seems unlikely to me given Apple's branding around privacy. Do you suspect they're going to backdoor the iOS HTTPS implementation for Starlink?

Is there a way to prove your data is private? Or were just taking their word on it?

RCS is working on Android.

SpaceX will see exactly who you are talking to, and there's nothing Apple can do about that if they want SpaceX to route the traffic.

> SpaceX will see exactly who you are talking to

Is Starlink routing? I’d expect they’d see you’re talking to Apple, or at worst a CDN.

If you're accesing, say, an Iranian site, SpaceX will obviously see that and can record it. If you're doing a VoIP call or sending a text, I'm much less sure they'd see where it's going - but wouldn't think it's out of the question.

> If you're accesing, say, an Iranian site, SpaceX will obviously see that

Why? Your DNS requests should be encrypted.

First, that's rarely true, plenty of people use DNS, not DoH (and DoH just means Clodflare or whoever gets to know your traffic too). But even when they are, this is mostly irrelevant: your network provider knows which IPs you're talking to, otherwise they couldn't route your packets, obviously. It's generally quite trivial to do a reverse DNS search and figure out which hostname corresponds to the IP you're talking to.

These are regular unencrypted text messages

Apple controls the iPhones... they can e2e encrypt the data. This is not a real issue.

That's only if the other end is also Apple. Thankfully https is pretty ubiquitous.

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