Apple holds the master key when it comes to iCloud security, privacy

While your iCloud data is relatively safe from hackers, Apple has a master key to everything on its servers. This makes iCloud less than ideal for enterprise users and those wary of law enforcement, but security experts do have recommendations to help improve user privacy.

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[passivesmoking]

Why is this news? I've always operated under the assumption that all clouds worked like that, that all cloud companies had the ability to access any data you stored with them regardless of encryption used. It's also one more reason why I don't intend to use cloud services if it's at all avoidable.

Back in the days of the mainframe, it used to be "Never trust a computer you can't kick". Perhaps now it should be "Never trust a storage device you can't thermite".