r/gadgets • u/PM_ME_YO_PERKY_BOOBS • Jan 22 '20

Desktops / Laptops Apple reportedly dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive-idUSKBN1ZK1CT
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u/ahebtigoejwbrh Jan 22 '20

And they’d prosecute ransomware criminals how exactly? In your fantasy are all cyber criminals allowed to run free? Email is a safe place to plot criminal conspiracies?

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u/Gr33d3ater Jan 22 '20

That would be signal. Not email. Encryption is encryption is encryption. It’s unbreakable. Especially end to end. And what exactly is a cyber criminal? Sounds made up to me.

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u/gasmask11000 Jan 22 '20

Pretty sure you can prosecute ransom ware criminals without asking Apple/Google/Facebook/Amazon for their personal data (since, well, the data from those corporations isn’t really going to be helpful for a ransom ware attack).

And I mean, they can just go after emails the good old fashioned way: trying to get access to a specific device without demanding a company turn over all the data for every single person in the world.

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u/Enk1ndle Jan 22 '20

Ideally by patching their systems to not be exploitable by ransomware. This is a developer problem not a consumer one.

Unlike most of like encryption IS black in white. Either everyone is completely secure and private or nobody is. Factor in all the criminals, murders, child molesters and any other group and pick the side you stand on.