Apple Has Finally Solved a Fundamental Flaw in iCloud

Advanced Data Protection on iCloud — Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

Jakub Jirak
Mac O’Clock

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Secured iCloud | Image courtesy of the author

Apple often boasts about the overall security of its products. In fact, it generally prides itself on slightly more closed operating systems, which is crucial in this area. For example, you can only install apps on your iPhone that have passed the verification process and made it into the official App Store, which significantly reduces the risk of installing infected software. But it doesn’t stop there.

In fact, Apple products continue to offer additional forms of security at both the hardware and software level. For example, data encryption, which ensures that no unauthorised person can access the user’s data without knowing the passcode, is a matter of course.

However, Apple systems have a hole in this respect in the form of the iCloud cloud service. We recently covered this topic in the article attached below. The problem is that although the system itself encrypts the data, any backups stored in iCloud are no…

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Jakub Jirak
Mac O’Clock

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