product owners of apple may make your data more protected soon. The increment is part of an update of the icloud, which will extend end-to-end encryption to all information stored in the cloud. The news is good, but the list of disgruntled people is already being filled, starting with the FBI🇧🇷
The story starts from washington post🇧🇷 According to the newspaper on Wednesday (7), the FBI said it is “deeply concerned about the threat of end-to-end and user-only access encryption.”
But the reoccupation, from the point of view of the police agency, is not in vain.
Since 2016, Apple and the FBI have been locked in a massive battle. The confusion was triggered after an attack in San Bernardino, in the United States, when security forces wanted Apple to create a backdoor to unlock the shooter’s iPhone 5c.
Apple refused, as the breach could be exploited later by malicious people. But the FBI soon found a way to unlock the cell phoneeven with a lot of effort.
This episode resulted in a cat and mouse race as Apple has further strengthened the security of its products in the following years. but this did not stop the FBI from taking action and look for alternatives: request information stored in iCloud, as not all data is end-to-end encrypted.
To avoid unauthorized access, this door is also being closed with the expansion of cryptography to cover more data categories like photos and backup.
In light of this, the FBI stated that this change undermines “the ability to protect the American people from criminal acts ranging from cyberattacks and violence against children to drug trafficking, organized crime and terrorism.”
“In this age of cybersecurity and demands for ‘security by design,’ the FBI and law enforcement partners need ‘lawful access by design,’” they concluded.
USA and Brazil are the countries that most request data
Apple’s measure, in fact, is necessary. During the announcement of the novelty, the iPhone manufacturer said that the data in iCloud is protected even if the account is hacked. After all, only the device will have the key to decrypt the data stored in the cloud.
And there are reasons for this concern. In 2014, for example, an iCloud breach apparently triggered a leak of intimate celebrity photos🇧🇷 The platform also houses other types of sensitive data that would be valuable in the hands of criminals.
This decision, as expected, restricts even Apple’s actions. After all, with end-to-end encryption, not even the company has access to the data.
In this way, even with court subpoenas, the police forces will not have access to the information, as it is necessary to have the device in hand – and unlocked – to access it.
And it is precisely this issue that concerns the FBI. On a transparency page, Apple reported that the United States and Brazil appear in the lead in the ranking of requests for information on Apple accounts in the first half of 2021.
In both countries, more than eight out of ten orders were filled by Apple.
The report points out that, in the United States, there is a “high volume of account requests with no predominant type of investigation”. In Brazil, in turn, there is a “high volume of requests for accounts due to court orders without a predominant type of investigation or where the type of investigation was not indicated”.
With information: washington post
https://tecnoblog.net/noticias/2022/12/09/fbi-esta-insatisfeito-com-a-expansao-da-criptografia-do-icloud/