Comment by mdhb
5 months 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.
5 months 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.
We all know Apple (and everyone else) gives data to law enforcement all over the world 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
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.
We're specifically talking about files encrypted E2E using ADP. Can you point to any such files being used in prosecutions?
> 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.
Got any sources to back that up?
I 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.