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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by drdaeman on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @11:06PM (#22114518)
But you can't do so automatically. You have to open iTunes (or Finder) and explicitly click a button.

If Apple is privacy-oriented, they should've allowed this long time ago. Unlike iCloud backups, this is certainly not a legal issue, as the "local" backups stored on one's computer are already fully encrypted.

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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by codedokode on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:52AM (#22116728)
If Apple were privacy-oriented then they would at least add a big red warning about reversible encryption when turning on cloud backups.
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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by linusnext on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:58AM (#22115000)
True or not, you have my apathy and my down vote.*

* My memory says I spent way too much on an iPhone. My ego says that can't be true, and in the end memory yields. -nietzsche

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