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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by post_below on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @02:14PM (#22110335)
Depending on what functionality you're willing to give up, an Android device can pretty easily be used as a more private option thanks to the latest iteration of Google's privacy settings.

If you're willing to root your device, you can have the best of both the functionality and privacy worlds.

That only applies to motivated and reasonably tech savvy users of course, out of the box iOS is still the better privacy option.

Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by theshrike79 on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @05:50AM (#22116339)
If you can root your device, so can the bad guys.
Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by post_below on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:32PM (#22141643)
On iOS it's called jailbreaking. In either case it's been a long time since anyone came up with an exploit that could do it remotely.