Like, there’s a lot of people freaking out about Apple ending End to End encryption in iCloud in UK. I’m just like: So What? It was probably backdoored from the beginning

So is Big Tech’s E2E actually not backdoored? Or is that just a PR stunt to trick people into trusting iCloud, and this is a secret honeypot? 🤔

What are your thoughts?

  • Lojcs@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    The government then revealed that they had access to a third party tool that they used to break into the phone and recover its contents.

    I’m not sure if we’re thinking of the same case but I also remember that the tool wasn’t ready in the beginning, which is why they tried the court method until it was

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      It wasn’t that it wasn’t ready, it just cost them $1m to hire a private contractor to unlock it.

      A court ordered redesign of the password lock timeout would have been free.