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How is it fundamentally flawed?

It's a company with no morals, but the product isn't stupid, and neither is the way the company operates or the people who run it.

Don't underestimate your adversary.

No, he said that when the audio command came over the speakers, it triggered the smart glasses of everyone in the auditorium.

They didn't care about this system. It just got caught up in their news sources.

This isn't funny, it's just a thing that happened.

It seems a reasonable guess that a person whose hobby is building custom mechanical keyboards probably does keep it clean. I figured people using an encrypted messaging system with backups enabled would probably go to the trouble of ensuring those backups didn't live in one place.

The point is that encrypted messaging is not a hobby for anyone but Moxie Marlinspike. It's just a tool that people use for communication. WhatsApp and iMessage are both encrypted and have relatively seamless backup solutions and do not require any extra thought or effort.

Are people not copying their backup off their device periodically?

Do you change your air filter, clean your keyboard, floss your teeth, derust your tools, organize your files, respond to all your messages, keep on top of available tax breaks and deals, dust under your bed etc?

No one does every random maintenance task as often as they should meaning that everyone is letting some slip occasionally which means you should expect that no, not everyone is periodically backing up and transferring their DMs to a different device.

I don't fault researchers for publishing novel research that might not go anywhere. I explicitly understand the scientific value in doing so.

I do not think it's valuable to breathlessly regurgitate those claims to the broader pop-sci public though. A) It's boring to read the same overhyped battery press release every single week. And B) it shakes people's faith in science, in the same way that people's faith in medicine has been shaken by bad reporting on every study that says X could give you cancer or make you live longer.