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The article conflates the encrypted binary blobs which are your iCloud backups, with the kind of structured data Facebook gathers. They are not remotely compara

by gaius 9y ago

The article conflates the encrypted binary blobs which are your iCloud backups, with the kind of structured data Facebook gathers. They are not remotely comparable.

opencl 9y ago
Encryption is meaningless from a privacy perspective when they also store the keys on their servers.
Jgrubb 9y ago
I’m surely wrong, but I thought I read a thing that iCloud blobs were actually not encrypted so that Apple could deduplicate common files/blocks/whatever.