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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by matwood on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:37PM (#22111251)
It has been known and talked about on HN for a long time that only certain things are E2E encrypted on iCloud. And, if full privacy was the goal, then either the user can only do local backups or no backups at all.
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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by Proziam on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @05:07PM (#22112183)
HN is among the most technologically-literate demographics in the world. Using HN as a control group to say that it's been 'known and talked about' is a bit disingenuous when we're the proverbial 1% who are in the know. Meanwhile, the other 99% are left trusting Apple's advertising.
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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by artificial on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @09:08PM (#22113888)
Just to understand this better is it that Apple is misleading or the public is uninformed? Trusting 3rd parties should default to “others have access including law enforcement” behavior.
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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by catalogia on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @10:07PM (#22114216)
> "Just to understand this better is it that Apple is misleading or the public is uninformed?"

That's a false dichotomy. I'd say both are true. Both are usually true.

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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by netheril96 on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @10:15PM (#22114254)
Yet many HNers did not know about this before today. Even more evidence how misleading Apple has been on this.
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