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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by amlozano on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @02:50PM (#22110783)
Tell that to us Windows and Linux people
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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by lorenzhs on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @05:04AM (#22116124)
libimobiledevice works just fine on Linux. Your distribution's version may be out of date, but the upstream version gets updated to match any iOS changes pretty quickly.
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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by jedieaston on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @08:51PM (#22113801)
iTunes on Windows does the same exact thing, and you can run it in a VM on Linux (if the latest version doesn’t work in Wine, which I think it may).
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