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Of course, from TFA; "The encryption on smartphones only applies to data stored solely on the phone. Companies like Apple and Google regularly give law enforce
by zaroth 8y ago
Of course, from TFA;
"The encryption on smartphones only applies to data stored solely on the phone. Companies like Apple and Google regularly give law enforcement officials access to the data that consumers back up on their servers, such as via Apple’s iCloud service. Apple said that since 2013, it has responded to more than 55,000 requests from the United States government seeking information about more than 208,000 devices, accounts or financial identifiers."
- randyrand 8y agoThat is an insane number. Jesus. Why don't they encrypt the data with my apple id password? Such a big security risk. It seems like hacking the iCloud servers is a much more obvious way for an attacker to get data.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 8y agoThis has come up before and the current thought is that Apple won't do this because people themselves are idiots and forget their passwords and ask Apple to regain access to their iCloud data. Obviously if it's encrypted with the password Apple would not be able to allow them to regain access. I don't see any reason why encrypting it couldn't be a toggle switch, not on by default, though.
- GeekyBear 8y agoWhen Apple announced iMessage in the Cloud at last year's WWDC the headline security feature was that the data would be stored on iCloud encrypted with a key that your devices would share with each other, but that Apple did not possess. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3zdqy/apple-is-trying-to-make-your-imessages-even-more-private https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3zdqy/apple-is-t...