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> The post is attacking a straw man. It's a straw man, but not his straw man. Pull up popular press articles about iOS8's disk encryption and you'll find that
by briandh 12y ago
> The post is attacking a straw man.
It's a straw man, but not his straw man. Pull up popular press articles about iOS8's disk encryption and you'll find that a disturbing number of them uncritically claim that it's meant to thwart the NSA. It's been driving me crazy.
- azonenberg 12y agoExactly. I wrote it to set the record straight: Apple's crypto is intended to guard against a limited class of attacks, and "the KGB is after me" is not one of them.