Re:Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery
by sandworm101 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:57PM
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https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/04/05/icloud-w...
"The mud puddle test: You don’t have to dig through Apple’s ToS to determine how they store their encryption keys. There’s a much simpler approach that I call the ‘mud puddle test’"
You can setup secure encrypted backups, but the customer losing the key means losing the back so that’s not what consumer focused companies are going to do. In other words any backup service that doesn’t have big warnings that losing your key loses your backup means they can read your data.