By Wayne Rash | Posted 2016-03-16
NEWS ANALYSIS: Currently Apple has access to iCloud accounts through encryption keys stored with Apple, but that may be about to change.
According to a number of press reports, Apple is in the process of revamping its iCloud storage service to increase security by divesting itself of the task of keeping users' encryption keys.
Currently Apple keeps the keys to access iCloud accounts, which means, among other things, that Apple can provide information to authorities when presented with a warrant. The company provided such information from the iCloud account of Sayed Farook, the terrorist who killed 14 county employees in San Bernardino, Calif. Late in 2015.
Apparently that’s now about to change. If the reports are correct, Apple is planning to offload the storage of encryption keys so that users control their keys key, and they're accessible only through a password.
This way, even Apple cannot gain access to your encrypted data, no matter how much it may want to and no matter how many government subpoenas it receives. It can’t honor court orders to provide the data because the company has no way to decrypt it.
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Oh boy this isn't good and like the article saids that Apple is leaving iit up to the user to create a password to encrypt their own files leaves a open door for the hackers to guess the passwords which means it's no more secure then before. Apple is taking it out of their hands into the users to secure their devices? er what?
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