@matthew_d_green ball is in #Apples court and we've had, what, zip? So they caved in ? No one in the world can trust #ios backups?
> your backups would be encrypted securely under your phone’s passcode — something you should remember because you have to type it in every day
Securely? But aren't phone passcodes only 4-6 digits long? And if someone has access to the encrypted data, won't they have unlimited attempts to decrypt it? Wouldn't that make a brute-force attack trivial?
@matthew_d_green typo should be Capability :)
"Technical Capabiilty Notices"
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/12/u-k-asks-to-backdoor-icloud-backup-encryption/#:~:text=Technical%20Capabiilty%20Notices
"Members of key congressional oversight committees wrote to the United States’ new top intelligence official Thursday to warn that a British order demanding government access to Apple users’ encrypted data imperils Americans."
Members of key congressional oversight committees wrote to the United States’ new top intelligence official Thursday to warn that a British order demanding government access to Apple users’ encrypted data imperils Americans. https://wapo.st/4hZ9WFz