Apple’s ‘Emergency’ Warning—Do This To Encrypt Your iCloud Now – Forbes
Your security has now at riskWe live in dangerous times. As is being widely reported, Apple is being forced to add a backdoor to iCloud, which opens up access to all your iPhone, iPad content backed up to iCloud, whether it’s end-to-end encrypted or not. And according to reports, the iMaker is not even allowed to let you know this is being done or your security has changed. As EFF warns, the demand for “Apple to break encryption is an emergency for us all.”You can read all about the implications of this proposed change here.Apple’s excellent Advanced Data Protection (APD) is central to this new furor. This applies end-to-end encryption to almost all the sensitive data on your iPhone, including your iCloud drive, photos, messaging and more. It removes previous loopholes, where Apple had access to the encryption keys to unlock your messages, by way of example.This high-risk mandate comes courtesy of the UK government, which has issued a so-called “technical capability notice,” demanding Apple add a backdoor to iCloud for UK intelligence and law enforcement to tap into fully encrypted content.Speculation as to what will happen next includes removing end-to-end iCloud encryption from UK accounts or an appeal and fightback. According to reports, though, Apple can’t await the results of an appeal before making changes and the changes must apply to all iCloud users, not just those in the UK, negating the first option as well.What you can do is demonstrate the importance of fully encrypted content to protect your own data. APD comes with some health warnings, primarily that if you lose your backup key or control of your trusted devices you will also lose your data. By its very nature Apple can’t unlock this for you — that’s kind of the point.Apple’s instructions set out how to add ADP to your account and the device-by-device requirement to ensure all will be able to access your iCloud data once ADP is enabled.Here are the requirements:With that done, here’s how you enable ADP:”On iPhone or iPad:On Mac:It won’t protect you if Apple does make changes, but we don’t know much for sure yet; at the very least it makes the right statement that this is critical to millions of users.One Community. Many Voices. Create a free account to share your thoughts. Our community is about connecting people through open and thoughtful conversations. We want our readers to share their views and exchange ideas and facts in a safe space.In order to do so, please follow the posting rules in our site’s Terms of Service. We’ve summarized some of those key rules below. Simply put, keep it civil.Your post will be rejected if we notice that it seems to contain:User accounts will be blocked if we notice or believe that users are engaged in:So, how can you be a power user?Thanks for reading our community guidelines. Please read the full list of posting rules found in our site’s Terms of Service.
