Re:iOS 12 released
by mtgx on Monday September 17, 2018 @05:12PM
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Yeah but even if they use e2e, which btw was found to be flawed at the protocol design level by prof. Matthew Greene and his team, they also automatically back-up the messages to iCloud with no way to disable that without disabling the whole of icloud. It would sure be nice if they changed that.
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This is categorically and demonstrably false. Backing up to iCloud is disabled by default, as is Messages in iCloud. Either can be enabled or disabled as desired with no ill effect on your device or the rest of iCloud usage.
iCloud backup is on by default.
No - setting up an iPhone from new doesn’t even require an iCloud account. If you set up iCloud it will enable backups, but even then you can disable them without disabling ‘all of icloud’ as GP claims.
The fact that iCloud is not required to activate does not change the fact that iCloud is on by default and iCloud backup is also on by default.
Re:iOS 12 released
by mediocrejoker on Monday September 17, 2018 @05:21PM
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Can you elaborate on what you mean by "e2e was found to be flawed"? Is the paper available online?
Commenter probably meant this research[0].
[0] - https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/03/21/attack-o...
There is the option in Settings to disable storing Messages and Backups in iCloud.