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Comment by AndrewUnmuted

3 years ago

If the backup password to these encrypted files is known, it can be rather trivial to access the data within.

Recently, a certain head of state's son had 100s of GB of iCloud backups thrown onto a torrent, and within a day rogue manchildren living in their parents' basements cracked most, if not all of it open.

With the backup password in hand, all one needs is this README.md file [0] to be off to the races.

[0] https://github.com/avibrazil/iOSbackup/blob/master/README.md

>If the backup password to these encrypted files is known, it can be rather trivial to access the data within.

That's how encryption works...

  • That's how Apple's encryption in iCloud works. There are plenty of modern encryption standards that are not broken by a random user merely entering a random passphrase string.