Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained

Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by xvector on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:21PM (#22111725)

It would be trivial for the Chinese gov't to sniff RAM or the bus and get everything they need anyways.

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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by scarface74 on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:39PM (#22111921)

What exactly are they going to “sniff”? Private keys never leave your device.

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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by lern_too_spel on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:46PM (#22113438)

The keys that encrypt the iCloud data are never on your device. They don't even need to sniff the keys. They control them.

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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by scarface74 on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:49PM (#22113453)

Apple clearly lists which data is e2e encrypted and which isn’t. The keys that encrypt e2e data is not stored on Apple’s servers.

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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by lern_too_spel on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @08:57PM (#22113829)

And we were talking about iCloud data here. So why were you claiming the keys were on the device?

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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by scarface74 on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @09:32PM (#22114009)

And that doesn’t make the statement untrue. Apple clearly lists which data stored on its servers are e2e encrypted. Those are all considered “iCloud data”.

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