Did the FBI get Apple to kill iCloud backup encryption?
(iMore iPhone)

Reuters detonated a huge controversy in the Apple and security spaces yesterday with this headline - Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained - sources. First, what Reuters is referring to as `backups` here is specifically iCloud backups. There are still two ways to backup Apple devices - to iCloud and locally to a Mac or PC. For a very long time now, and still, to this day, you can locally back up to your Mac or PC and opt-in to those backups being password encrypted. It`s not a plan, it`s a checkbox. And none of that has changed.  Second. Based on reactions to the headline, many people, including very tech-savvy people, didn`t seem to realize or remember that iCloud backups weren`t quote-unquote encrypted. I say quote-unquote because the backups actually are encrypted. But, Apple has their own set of keys and can access them. Which... is not unusual. There are a couple of reasons for that: Features and fail-safes. Features and fail-safes I`ll get...