Re:Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK
by causal on Friday February 21, 2025 @01:29PM
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Agree in principle, though WhatsApp backups are encrypted with a user provided password, so ostensibly inaccessible to Google or whoever you use as backup
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Re:Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK
by scripturial on Friday February 21, 2025 @11:47PM
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What makes you think WhatsApp backups don’t have a secondary way to unlock the encryption key? Wouldn’t it be more logical to assume the encryption key for whatsapp backups can also be unlocked by an alternate “password”
If the US is willing to build an entire data center in Outback Australia to allow warrantless access to US citizen data, why wouldn’t they be forcing WhatsApp backups to be unlockable?