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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by soulofmischief on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @02:26PM (#22110493)
It is mere marketing, if it is meant to convince consumers of one thing while in practice it's a different thing. The reasons why are irrelevant. Apple would prefer everyone just assumed iCloud backups were encrypted, and tries to keep quiet about it.
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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by lilyball on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:01PM (#22111512)
Apple has never marketed the idea that iCloud backups are encrypted.
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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by zacwest on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:04PM (#22111546)
You need to be extremely technical to understand the difference between "Encryption: Yes" and not end-to-end encrypted. To the lay user, Apple is explicitly telling you that they're encrypted. See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303.
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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by codedokode on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:23PM (#22113302)
Nice trick. The big table in the beginning has "Yes" almost everywhere but in fact the data are accessible by Apple. And they don't even have warnings like "Your data might be decrypted and given to law enforcement agencies". Absolutely deceiving article although Apple hasn't written a single untrue word.
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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by lern_too_spel on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:14PM (#22111654)
Apple did market to users that it was technically incapable of helping unlock iPhones. After the FBI showed that Apple technically can do so, that marketing disappeared very quickly. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ios-8-even-apple-cant-...
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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by dwaite on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @05:00AM (#22116106)
The FBI proposed that Apple could write a new operating system variant that would let the FBI robot-brute-force the password, for certain older models at the time (without a Secure Enclave).

I believe Apple changed how operating system updates were installed after this point so that they did not have the capability to upgrade the phone's operating system without access to the device passcode.

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