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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by codedokode on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:30PM (#22113345)
So it seems like the data are encrypted both in transit and on the server and it means that nobody is able to get unencrypted data even if they can intercept the traffic or access the server.
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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by mirimir on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:43PM (#22113416)
Nobody except Apple, that is.

That's no different from me offering a remote backup service on a LUKS encrypted box, using sftp or whatever, and then making those claims.

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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by commoner on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:14AM (#22114838)
No, the data is still not end-to-end encrypted, which means that Apple can decrypt the data on the server.
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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by hu3 on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:43PM (#22113419)
The article says otherwise.
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