{"id":31074,"date":"2020-12-17T16:47:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T21:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31074"},"modified":"2020-12-17T19:49:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T00:49:20","slug":"where-is-end-to-end-encryption-for-icloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/17\/where-is-end-to-end-encryption-for-icloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Is End-to-End Encryption for iCloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oleb.net\/2020\/icloud-end-to-end-encryption\/\">Ole Begemann<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/oleb.net\/2020\/icloud-end-to-end-encryption\/\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=08IC1AZTxls&amp;t=3336\" title=\"European Data Protection &amp; Privacy Conference 2020: Opening Keynote Speeches\">In a December 2020 video<\/a> recorded for the European Data Protection &amp; Privacy Conference, Apple&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Craig_Federighi\">Craig Federighi<\/a> touts <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/End-to-end_encryption\">end-to-end-encryption<\/a> for iMessage[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Apple has been using this self-congratulatory tone about their encryption efforts for years and I find it increasingly disingenuous. What Federighi fails to mention: if you have iCloud Backup enabled, that last claim (emphasis mine) is not the whole truth.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if you use Apple services as intended and recommended by Apple, a large portion of your most sensitive data is in fact not securely encrypted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/10\/upgrading-from-an-iphone-xr-to-an-iphone-12-mini\/\">Upgrading From an iPhone XR to an iPhone 12 mini<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/21\/apple-dropped-plans-for-end-to-end-encrypted-icloud-backups-after-fbi-objected\/\">Apple Dropped Plans for End-to-End Encrypted iCloud Backups After FBI Objected<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/imessage-end-to-end-encryption\/\">iMessage End-to-End Encryption<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ole Begemann: In a December 2020 video recorded for the European Data Protection &amp; Privacy Conference, Apple&rsquo;s Craig Federighi touts end-to-end-encryption for iMessage[&#8230;] Apple has been using this self-congratulatory tone about their encryption efforts for years and I find it increasingly disingenuous. What Federighi fails to mention: if you have iCloud Backup enabled, that last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-12-17T21:47:33Z","apple_news_api_id":"5b022f13-5fbb-4fa1-9903-efd350b1738c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-12-18T00:49:23Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AWwIvE1-7T6GZA-_TULFzjA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,629,1776,16,31,1837,30,1891,355],"class_list":["post-31074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-craig-federighi","tag-gdpr","tag-icloud","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-privacy"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31077,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31074\/revisions\/31077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}