>The design of this irrational system only makes sense when a 3 letter agency saw it, and got FISA to compel Apple to key escrow. Or the more common reasoning:

>The design of this irrational system only makes sense when a 3 letter agency saw it, and got FISA to compel Apple to key escrow. Or the more common reasoning: Apple wanted to provide a method for you to restore your new iPhone from an iCloud backup without treating your Apple ID password as an encryption key.