For those in the UK: reminder that you can still back up locally to your computer to an encrypted file; you don’t need to use iCloud.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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I don’t think it’s just the backups. Apple’s site says it’s things “such as” wallet, notes, photos, documents, bookmarks, reminders, voice memos, shortcuts, messages backup, and device backup. The “such as” seems to imply there’s more.
So basically, all of iCloud E2E services xP
NextCloud provides the same services, so is an option:)
Not really caving. The alternative was to provide the government an encryption backdoor. That’s what the UK feds asked for.
Yeah, this isn’t caving. This is non-compliance
The more services that lock out my country, the better.
Even my home instance has done it.
Direct consequences are the only way to get it into the thick skulls of the people that This Is Bad.
Party in the MI6
Party in the NSA
Party in the CIA
If by “party” you mean of the ultra-conservative variety….
Yeah but not... really. They could all circumvent this easily enough (mailing you bits of your family until you give them the password is a classic technique), this just weakens their own or ally countries with no benefit to them directly. Anyone who they actually want access to is going to be using encryption some other way now, so really this just makes their job more of a pain in the ass.
Yeah Apple is obviously to blame. Let’s put their picture on the story.