Apple reportedly dropped plans to introduce end-to-end encryption of iCloud backups due to pressure from the FBI, reports Reuters.
As we've noted before, if you are using Apple's iCloud services your data is not secure. Apple has the encryption keys to your photos, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, mail, notes, voice memos, health, call history, and files. Even your messages are not secure if you have iCloud backup enabled.
According to the report, Apple reversed course around two years ago, perhaps as a tactic to keep the iPhone itself secure amid calls from law enforcement agencies for a backdoor into the device that would let them easily access user information.
The tech giant’s reversal, about two years ago, has not previously been reported. It shows how much Apple has been willing to help U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies, despite taking a harder line in high-profile legal disputes with the government and casting itself as a defender of its customers’ information.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr has public asked Apple to unlock two iPhones used by the Pensacola shooter with backing from President Trump. Although Apple is unable to do so, it did turn over the shooter's iCloud backups and rejects the characterization that it 'has not provided substantive assistance'.
More details in the full report linked below.
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As we've noted before, if you are using Apple's iCloud services your data is not secure. Apple has the encryption keys to your photos, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, mail, notes, voice memos, health, call history, and files. Even your messages are not secure if you have iCloud backup enabled.
According to the report, Apple reversed course around two years ago, perhaps as a tactic to keep the iPhone itself secure amid calls from law enforcement agencies for a backdoor into the device that would let them easily access user information.
The tech giant’s reversal, about two years ago, has not previously been reported. It shows how much Apple has been willing to help U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies, despite taking a harder line in high-profile legal disputes with the government and casting itself as a defender of its customers’ information.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr has public asked Apple to unlock two iPhones used by the Pensacola shooter with backing from President Trump. Although Apple is unable to do so, it did turn over the shooter's iCloud backups and rejects the characterization that it 'has not provided substantive assistance'.
More details in the full report linked below.
Read More