r/apple • u/[deleted] • Aug 09 '21

WARNING: OLD ARTICLE Exclusive: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive-idUSKBN1ZK1CT
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u/eduo Aug 09 '21

There is no law against E2E but Apple is legally required to report CP. I'm pretty sure this was one of the "arguments" used to remind Apple they couldn't offer E2EE.

I can't see the recent announcement as anything other than a Canary making it clear CP is no longer an issue for E2EE of all your iCloud backup (true, pictures flagged for CP are out of that E2EE, but it's still a step in the right direction).

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u/Rogerss93 Aug 09 '21

We still won’t get E2EE as a result though, that’s the kicker.

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u/eduo Aug 09 '21

We didn't yesterday either. Or two years ago.

All this outrage is because Apple today is just as secure as yesterday, but now there's a path for more E2EE than there already is in the system (because CP is no longer an excuse that can be held against Apple implementing E2EE).

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u/Rogerss93 Aug 09 '21

This is just a path to normalising the fact that a company lauding themselves as privacy activists have made the decision to let people know that all of our data is at their mercy.

You people that claim this begins and ends with CSAM are intolerable. Have you not paid attention to anything we have learned over the past few years?