Do you have citations for “Apple has rolled over forms enforcement in the past”? I’m wondering if this is country-specific.
Fortunately you can still back up your devices locally, and store your photos locally, and these backups can be encrypted.
drop_and_run@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Troubling precedent, but I expect no one used this anyways. Anybody who needs this would be smart enough to know not to trust so proprietary a device and service.
Given how readily Apple has rolled over for law enforcement in the past, this is just security theater.
reddig33@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
drop_and_run@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
My recollection was erroneous, as I can’t (easily) find evidence of them rolling over. But the devices in question still got unlocked, so in the end it didn’t matter whether Apple (openly or surreptitiously) cooperated.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
Yeah, it’s 3rd party vendors like greykey and cellibrite that allow LEO to get around apples security.
To its credit, apple does a fairly decent job of staying ahead of the unlocking tech, but some older hardware and os are easily cracked.
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