Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups
The number of people in the comments complaining or finding new places to move the goalposts to is astounding.<p>&gt; what good is that encryption, if Apple obviously can do almost anything with your device?<p>&gt; They can still simply push a software update that sends the victim&#x27;s keys to the mothership and&#x2F;or simply decrypts everything<p>&gt; This all just seems like pandering while they continue to accept billions from Google in exchange for their user&#x27;s privacy.<p>&gt; Couldn’t they simply use an encryption algorithm that has two private keys and they control one?<p>Apple could say they are going to cease operations tomorrow, close down the company, and people would comment &quot;Yeah but they could always create a new company&quot;. I guess for those people nothing is ever enough.<p>This is a huge step forward (specifically iCloud E2EE) that I&#x27;m super excited about and people are busy coming up with threat models that 99% of us have zero use for and pretending as if this doesn&#x27;t matter. It&#x27;s disappointing.