Apparently Apple can end-to-end encrypt your iCloud, but it’s opt in because they still want to profit off your data >_<
To enable this, go to Settings -> iCloud -> Advanced Data Protection
You need to have all the devices under your apple account to be fully updated, and you’ll need to remember a 28-key passphrase for recovery
I hate how big tech treats privacy as an afterthought. This should have been the default. But oh well. Spread the world people.
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Orrr it’s because a lot of people don’t care about E2EE and just want their files to be backed up. Can we stop demonizing every single IT company ever for anything they do?
If they’d make this the default a lot of leas tech-savvy people would regularly lose their data because regular account recovery mechanisms don’t work with E2EE enabled. The vast majority of people don’t even use password managers and yes, people forget their passwords and yes, the same thing happens with a 28-digit recovery phrase. No, many won’t remember where they put it when they wrote it down. Many won’t even understand what this phrase means, even when the setup process directly explains it to them.
But we can obviously also be all negative about why this isn’t enabled by default and make assumptions.
Keeping your data from Malus is harder than expected
Proprietary end-to-end encryption is a joke. Where is that key stored? Who has access to the key? What guarantees do you have that Malus doesn’t copy your key to their cloud?
Remember when worldwide all macs were slow because one of their servers had an issue?
Using a proprietary system for security and or privacy is for the feels only.
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