imessaging security on Macbook Air

[jjhouston]

Situation: I have a work macbook but company has a policy of employees using their personal icloud credentials on work computer. I am receiving imessages from my personal cellphone on my macbook over company wifi mostly for the convenience of keeping in touch with family during the day. Question: Can my company read the personal conversations going on with my family? I'm just curious because there are some health related things going on with family members that I haven't disclosed at work.

 

[Glmnet1]

iMessage uses end-to-end encryption so it would be very hard to intercept conversations on the network.

You're using your own iCloud account so again they can't login with it on another device and read your conversations.

I think that the only way they could realistically read it is if they have access to your user on the MacBook.

Sorry for the health issue, I hope your family member gets better.

 

[mtneer]

If you work for the NSA or the CIA - hell yeah! If you work for someone who is not a 3-letter federal agency, not likely.

 

[Weaselboy]

https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/27/apple-explains-exactly-how-secure-imessage-really-is/

If everybody on both ends is using Messages and not SMS, it is fully encrypted end to end and your company will not be able to see the content passing over the network.

 

[SteveJUAE]

Yes if they have remote access to your user but you are normally aware this is happening and have to grant the session access