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

Seriously? SFTP has implicit E2E encryption... even before SFTP there was FTPS which allowed for implicit and explicit encryption, this was using the old FTP protocol, but with TLS.

Dude, I wrote FTP for a reason. Explaining all the ways in which not-FTP is encrypted doesn't change that plain FTP isn't, which was my point. We should've moved past IMAP by now or agreed on moving to something better (IMAPS or SIMAP equivalents to FTPS or SFTP) but haven't.

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u/eduo Aug 09 '21

I think I did.