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You are out of your mind if you think files in iCloud are somehow outside the reach of US intel. It’s been publicly used in a bunch of prosecutions at this poi
by mdhb 2y ago
You are out of your mind if you think files in iCloud are somehow outside the reach of US intel.
It’s been publicly used in a bunch of prosecutions at this point.
- madeofpalk 2y agoWe all know Apple (and everyone else) gives data to law enforcement all over the world https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/ https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/ You're including end-to-end encrypted content in that as well, like from Advanced Data Protection? > If you choose to enable Advanced Data Protection, the majority of your iCloud data – including iCloud Backup, Photos, Notes and more – is protected using end-to-end encryption. No one else can access your end-to-end encrypted data, not even Apple, and this data remains secure even in the case of a data breach in the cloud. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/108756 https://support.apple.com/en-gb/108756 I have no opinion on whether US intel has a backdoor into this e2e encryption or not. It seems like the sort of thing where people non-chalantly state that it must happen, but of course no one ever has actual proof or a source.
- monooso 2y agoWe're specifically talking about files encrypted E2E using ADP. Can you point to any such files being used in prosecutions?
- yreg 2y ago> It’s been publicly used in a bunch of prosecutions at this point Can you give an example then? It would be major hacker news news if supposedly E2EE iCloud data were used in a prosecution.
- jachee 2y agoGot any sources to back that up?
- talldayo 2y agoI mean, you're right. People think "end to end" encryption helps them, but they forget that Apple controls both the server and client more than the user does.