Honestly, this is bad news, because it means Apple is no longer capable of offering both security and all features…
Absolutely not true.
There’s a difference between being secure and having all of the features and being secure against a state-level attacker. The vast majority of users are quite secure while enjoying all of the features of their iPhones.
For those who are being targeted, potentially in a life or death situation, being able to send attachments in iMessage is trivial by comparison. Only a tiny percentage of iPhone users should ever have to enable this; it won’t impact the user experience of over 95% of iPhone users at all.
Absolutely not true.
There’s a difference between being secure and having all of the features and being secure against a state-level attacker. The vast majority of users are quite secure while enjoying all of the features of their iPhones.
For those who are being targeted, potentially in a life or death situation, being able to send attachments in iMessage is trivial by comparison. Only a tiny percentage of iPhone users should ever have to enable this; it won’t impact the user experience of over 95% of iPhone users at all.