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Comment by nicce

4 years ago

> Contrary to popular belief, iCloud data, while encrypted, can be decrypted by Apple and is subject to US law enforcement requests.

The most seem to forget, that with this newcoming feature this is not possible anymore. Apple can’t decrypt your images anymore by request. (Read Apple’s PSI system)

There is also strong evidence that same is coming for backups. On iOS 15 beta, there is backup recovery option by authentication key.

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kristjansson  4 years ago

They can’t decrypt the safety vouchers, which contain low resolution versions of your image until the conditions are met … which makes no sense as they have access to the cleartext full resolution image right there.

Unless of course this is a precursor to an E2E encrypted iCloud wherein Apple does not have the ability to decrypt your images server side. I don’t see how this design makes sense unless that’s the next step

  • nicce  4 years ago

    > … which makes no sense as they have access to the cleartext full resolution image right there

    They have no access. It is end-to-end encrypted with new system. That is the whole point of on-device scanning. It is not next step, it is already there.