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Two-tier encryption in the UK

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  1. Grimeton · · focus · HN ↗
    >. It reverted affected UK iCloud data to Standard Data Protection, where Apple does hold the keys and can respond to lawful legal procress (except the baseline categories that stay end-to-end encrypted either way). This satisfied the underlying legal requirement without ever building a ‘backdoor’.

    Ah, just like that.

    Of course something that is just possible in the public eye, after a lot of public scrutiny and for all accounts at once.

    A single account, in secret? IMPOSSIBLE!

    They never needed to build a backdoor....

    Yeah I read the next few paragraphs and I've seen the turn off button....

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