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This scheme is obviously designed to work when Apple has no direct access to the photos. Because of this, there is a lot of speculation that Apple plans on maki

This scheme is obviously designed to work when Apple has no direct access to the photos. Because of this, there is a lot of speculation that Apple plans on making iCloud photos encrypted. This scheme would continue to work in that situation, whereas the on-server approach would fail. However that’s just speculation, Apple haven’t announced anything.

modeless 5y ago
That speculation is pretty out there considering that there have been no barriers to them doing true end-to-end encryption of iMessage backups, but they have chosen not to for many years despite marketing iMessage as "end-to-end" encrypted. Reportedly at the direct request of the FBI. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-for-encrypting-backups-after-fbi-complained-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1CT https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...