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Apple is a trillion dollar company with a lot of smart people. You could probably get them to design a system of N of M parts for recovery, or an apple branded
by mmastrac 5y ago
Apple is a trillion dollar company with a lot of smart people. You could probably get them to design a system of N of M parts for recovery, or an apple branded key holder that you can store in your bank vault and friends houses. If they wanted to they'd do it.
- sneak 5y agoMore than that: Apple already designed and partially implemented such a "trust circles" system. Apple legal killed the feature, because of pressure from the US government. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive-idUSKBN1ZK1CT https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv... They also run iCloud (mostly not e2e) on CCP-controlled servers for users in China. They can decrypt ~100% of iMessages in real-time due to the way iCloud Backup (on by default, not e2e) escrows iMessage sync keys. Apple does not protect your mprivacy from Apple, or, by extension, the governments that ultimately exert control over Apple: China and the USA.
- Retric 5y agoThat’s not what the article says, they simply don’t know. “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.”