Re:Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims ...
by Retric on Thursday August 19, 2021 @10:01AM
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Standard passwords don’t provide enough entropy to provide secure encryption.
Trusting third parties with the password in unencrypted form is either systematic in which case the FBI now just needs collect data from 2 different organizations, or on a case by case basis in which case users will mess it up. Apple etc would have no way to verify users actually did something to back up their keys.
Apple’s current approach is to let users setup their own backups if they want security which allows for privacy just fine without providing a service with fundamental issues.
Trusting third parties with the password in unencrypted form is either systematic in which case the FBI now just needs collect data from 2 different organizations, or on a case by case basis in which case users will mess it up. Apple etc would have no way to verify users actually did something to back up their keys.
Apple’s current approach is to let users setup their own backups if they want security which allows for privacy just fine without providing a service with fundamental issues.