I disagree that the only tool that gives strong metadata protection is pond. i2p-bote, bitmessage, and chatsecure over orbot at least advertise themselves as giving metadata protection by design. Thought I didn't realize bitmessage was in beta still.
The iMessage issue isn't related to iMessage being developed by the same company that handles the OS. It is that Apple holds the decryption keys for your messages; this is security by policy not security by design. http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/06/can-apple-re...
The iMessage issue isn't related to iMessage being developed by the same company that handles the OS. It is that Apple holds the decryption keys for your messages; this is security by policy not security by design. http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/06/can-apple-re...