Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
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Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
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Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
#3This really is something Tim needs to address before he again stands on stage and give lip service to Privacy with a capital P.
We also need hardball journalists to start asking Tim these tough questions instead of fawning over AirPods
And we need employees to start demanding this internally
Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
#4This really is something Tim needs to address before he again stands on stage and give lip service to Privacy with a capital P. We also need hardball journalists to start asking Tim these tough questions instead of fawning over AirPods And we need employees to start demanding this internally
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Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
#5Not sure, what's the point of sharing a two years old news.
Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
#6This really is something Tim needs to address before he again stands on stage and give lip service to Privacy with a capital P. We also need hardball journalists to start asking Tim these tough questions instead of fawning over AirPods And we need employees to start demanding this internally
Marketing. Apple does not care about your privacy but your perception. The EFF cares about your privacy.
Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
#7Not sure, what's the point of sharing a two years old news.
From Guidelines,
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity
Because someone found it interesting and curious with the state of things.
Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
#8Don't use the cloud if you care about privacy, or encrypt the data yourself before uploading. Has always been the case.
Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
#9Not sure, what's the point of sharing a two years old news.
From Guidelines, > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity Because someone found it interesting and curious with the state of things.
fair enough
Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)
#10Some have speculated that with the introduction of the PSI/CSAM system Apple will enable E2EE backups. Given the lack of an explicit statement on Apple's part and their history regarding E2EE backups (this article, and other statements). It seems really unlikely to me that Apple will enable E2EE backups.
Under E2EE, assuming the device key is randomly generated, if you have one device (as many users do) and you lose that device you would lose all your data. The alternative is the key is derived from your iCloud password, in which case, if you forget your password, you lose all your data.
Right now, you can browse your photos online. There's been no statement that this is going away. Implementing this functionality with E2EE backups seem highly problematic.
These are huge changes to iCloud functionality that Apple would surely announce...
There are many open questions. And given that there’s no clear statement from Apple, I’m inclined to believe that they retain the ability to decrypt all data.