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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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