cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/23398982
Apple has reportedly been ordered by the UK government to create a backdoor that would give security officials access to users’ encrypted iCloud backups. If implemented, British security services would have access to the backups of any user worldwide, not just Brits, and Apple would not be permitted to alert users that their encryption was […]
Of course, in that scenario you have to trust Apple because none of their code is open source and thus can’t be scrutinised.
Use Cryptomator before uploading things to iCloud that way it’s already encrypted. Then when/ if Apple manage to decrypt your data all they get is more encrypted data