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   James Thomson (jamesthomson@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 02:19:55 JST James Thomson

   I would bet a non-trivial amount of money that Apple will also switch off Advanced Data Protection in the US within the year, because they just handed a blueprint to every government around the world that wants to spy on their citizens.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 02:19:55 JST Warner Crocker

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     @jamesthomson Yup

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 06:44:53 JST Rich Felker

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     @jamesthomson What Apple needs to do to follow up and prevent this - and make the EU happy at the same time! - is make a way for the customer to use third-party full device backup services not run by or affiliated with Apple, as long as the 3p app never gets to see the cleartext data (fully e2ee).

     This would avoid responsibility for them hosting the encrypted data or offering it as a service, instead only shipping software (which they already ship, and which there is strong precedent you can't ban).

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 22-Feb-2025 06:56:58 JST Rich Felker

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     @jamesthomson This is also the smart move in a world where offering enormous amounts of free or cheap cloud storage is no longer economically feasible. Apple does not want to be in the business of selling expensive cloud storage. The want to be selling devices and skimming 30% of in-app purchases. Letting customers move their storage to 3p providers is also good business.