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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by commoner on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:07AM (#22114804)
> That should have been plainly obvious to any technically knowledgeable user

As you can see from this discussion, there are a lot of technically knowledgeable people who did not find this "plainly obvious". It's disingenuous to blame users for Apple's misleading marketing.

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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by kmbriedis on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:50PM (#22120006)
One could argue if those can be called "technically knowledgeable"
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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by everdrive on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @01:53PM (#22120712)
No one can be knowledgeable about all topics, which is precisely why trust is so important.
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Re:Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI compl... by zeroxfe on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @01:10PM (#22120222)
It's okay for knowledgeable people to not know things.
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