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Re:Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoi... by nitrogen on Saturday October 11, 2014 @07:41PM (#8443749)
If a key is stored on your phone, it can be obtained the same way any other data is obtained. If the key is password protected, a key logger would yield the password.

Edit: I forgot to check to whom I replied; "lern_to_spel" shows up on all of the Snowden threads.

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Re:Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoi... by lern_too_spel on Saturday October 11, 2014 @11:50PM (#8444305)
The key is not stored in the clear, and the device password is entered before a keylogger can run. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/10/even-golden-key-can-be...
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Re:Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoi... by xnull on Thursday October 23, 2014 @05:07PM (#8500766)
It's called "key escrow" and there are tons of ways to do it.

Look up US patents under 380/286 classification.

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Re:Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoi... by lern_too_spel on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @12:36AM (#8525573)
I know what key escrow is. Nitrogen didn't claim that Apple does that, and for good reason -- there is absolutely zero evidence that they do.
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Re:Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoi... by csandreasen on Saturday October 11, 2014 @08:00PM (#8443791)
The keys aren't stored on the phone - that's what's caused all of the recent controversy. A warrant to install a keylogger isn't very useful after the suspect has been taken into custody.
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