iCloud backups _are_ encrypted, but have an HSM-escrowed key process on court order. People like to pretend crypto is always E2E or nothing, but escrowed keys

iCloud backups _are_ encrypted, but have an HSM-escrowed key process on court order. People like to pretend crypto is always E2E or nothing, but escrowed keys do mean that the process of checking cloud-backed data has an auditable release process, that the keys to your data are outside the cloud-hosted infrastructure, and that there is no support for blanket data scanning. > assuming they encrypt iCloud photos at some point iCloud photos are already encrypted. See above.