After events in which the FBI has demonstrated its interest in accessing user data as if it were its own, an Apple executive said it was logical to think that the company would continue to strengthen the security policy of its products. And it is that, according to The New York Times y Financial Times, the apple company would not be satisfied with only winning the current dispute over user privacy, but are still working to encrypt backups in iCloud and hardware iPhone be impossible to penetrate.
At present, although the operating system is encrypted from head to toe, Apple is the one who has developed this encryption, so it has the key to break it. But the intention of the Cupertino company is to create an encryption that not even they can decipher, so that they could not access our data even if they wanted to or the forces of law forced them. In addition to better protecting our data, they would counter potential future FBI requests and plug a security hole in iCloud backups that law enforcement has been exploiting before.
Not even Apple will be able to access our iCloud information
The Financial Times says that Tim Cook and company are developing a new way to back up where they encryption keys would be tied to the device somehow. In this case, Apple would not be able to decrypt these backups and, therefore, could not respond to requests from the FBI and other organizations. The problem is that if users lose our access path, such as the password, we will not be able to access our data. In any case, I have never lost a password in all the years that I have been using all kinds of portals and services and I have even filled in the fields of the security questions with nonsense information so that no one who knows me can enter using information they know about my.
There would also be an issue that would affect all current devices, including the iPhone 6s / Plus that was introduced in September: the existing devices will not be protected by the new measures. In order to implement all the security they seek, new hardware would be needed, something like the A7 processor (and later) that saves our fingerprint information. In any case, I am glad that Apple is standing firm and continuing to look out for our safety. And you?
Obviously, this whole thing with the FBI, it suits them wonderfully. Free advertising, and good.
Regarding what I think:
Beyond all the encryption that iOS and iCloud have, I don't trust too much (it can still be jailbroken). This means that the system continues to be vulnerable.
Nor do I believe that our privacy is 100% private (even if Apple itself knows what we do).