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Re:Nelson woman delighted after Apple unlocks iPhone of late... by dannyw on Monday August 20, 2018 @09:50PM (#17806174)
They can’t because it’s obvious they have a secret FISA order preventing them to. The recent iMessages in the Cloud shows this: messages are end to end encrypted in iCloud using a separate, unique key that is only stored on your devices... and this key is uploaded to your iCloud account if you have backup enabled. No choice.

This is after the original version, got pulled from the beta suddenly with no reason and no widely reported bugs.

The design of this irrational system only makes sense when a 3 letter agency saw it, and got FISA to compel Apple to key escrow.

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Re:Nelson woman delighted after Apple unlocks iPhone of late... by macspoofing on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:23PM (#17806350)
You don't actually have any proof for anything you just wrote ... and you're making very specific assertions with full confidence.
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Re:Nelson woman delighted after Apple unlocks iPhone of late... by nemothekid on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:45PM (#17806475)
>The design of this irrational system only makes sense when a 3 letter agency saw it, and got FISA to compel Apple to key escrow.

Or the more common reasoning: Apple wanted to provide a method for you to restore your new iPhone from an iCloud backup without treating your Apple ID password as an encryption key.

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Re:Nelson woman delighted after Apple unlocks iPhone of late... by pvg on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:38PM (#17806443)
it’s obvious they have a secret FISA order preventing them to.

How is that obvious? And how a court do this? What would be the legal basis?

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Re:Nelson woman delighted after Apple unlocks iPhone of late... by jplayer01 on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @02:22AM (#17807453)
National security. As it always is.
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Re:Nelson woman delighted after Apple unlocks iPhone of late... by pvg on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @02:26AM (#17807470)
That doesn't really mean anything.
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