Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
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Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
#2The iCloud security overview [1] says iCloud backups are encrypted "in transit" and "on server", but indeed doesn't say much about the encryption keys. There is "end-to-end encryption" on just a few items (iCloud keychain, WiFi passwords, etc.)
Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
#3The iCloud security overview [1] says iCloud backups are encrypted "in transit" and "on server", but indeed doesn't say much about the encryption keys. There is "end-to-end encryption" on just a few items (iCloud keychain, WiFi passwords, etc.) 1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
Apple has a key for iCloud backups. [1]
Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
#4Some companies are better than others but there's absolutely no reason to believe any one of them would ever be on "your side" for any reason. You can vote for who makes decisions in government, but you can't vote for who makes decisions in companies.
Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
#5Some companies are better than others but there's absolutely no reason to believe any one of them would ever be on "your side" for any reason. You can vote for who makes decisions in government, but you can't vote for who makes decisions in companies.
You vote every time you decide to buy or not to buy.
Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
#6What the... I was under the impression that iCloud backups are end-to-end encrypted. This is a HUGE problem.
Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
#7What the... I was under the impression that iCloud backups are end-to-end encrypted. This is a HUGE problem.
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Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
#8Some companies are better than others but there's absolutely no reason to believe any one of them would ever be on "your side" for any reason. You can vote for who makes decisions in government, but you can't vote for who makes decisions in companies.
You vote every time you decide to buy or not to buy.
Tell me how I can choose to avoid buying fungible commodities from a particular source: suppose I want to avoid oil from BP because I disapprove of their handling of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Avoiding BP-branded filling stations doesn't actually mean I'm not buying oil that came from BP. Or suppose I want to avoid wheat from Archer Daniels Midland, or crops sprayed with Monsanto products. The idea that capitalism provides meaningful choice is a joke.
Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
#9Some companies are better than others but there's absolutely no reason to believe any one of them would ever be on "your side" for any reason. You can vote for who makes decisions in government, but you can't vote for who makes decisions in companies.
You vote every time you decide to buy or not to buy.
That's not how that works at all. You can buy something you need because you need it and that's not at all a vote saying you like the management of how it was produced.
Re: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
#10But it is nice that you have the option to not backup with iCloud. They are not storing the information whether you like it or not as a lot of companies do.