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From the source Reuters article > However, a former Apple employee said it was possible the encryption project was dropped for other reasons, such as concern t
by vmception 5y ago
From the source Reuters article
> However, a former Apple employee said it was possible the encryption project was dropped for other reasons, such as concern that more customers would find themselves locked out of their data more often.
When I was reading all of this that was the impression I got, before it was mentioned.
How would device upgrades even work if Apple didn't have the decryption key? Not saying it is impossible, but I'm not aware of how it would work. I guess the user could use their password as entropy to decrypt? That's kind of scary.
- deepsun 5y agoThey could store the decryption key separately (in a different network/vault) with audit trail. They could still be able to decrypt the docs, but it would be harder to break in. I believe google and amazon do that already.
- pgalvin 5y agoThat actually is what Apple (and pretty much all cloud storage) does. iCloud is built largely on Google’s hardware, hence the encryption. Of course, this doesn’t mean it is end-to-end encrypted as most people infer “encrypted” to mean, otherwise we could call Dropbox and Google Drive encrypted services.
- astrange 5y agoOf course they do do that. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303