Apple reportedly nixed plan for end-to-end encryption in iPhone backups

Ars Technica
By Jon BrodkinJan 21, 2020, 12:43 pm609 pts
Enlarge / The iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max running iOS 13. (credit: Samuel Axon) Two years ago, Apple dropped a plan that would have made it impossible for the company to decrypt iPhone and iPad backups for law enforcement, according to a Reuters report today. Reuters wrote that "six sources…

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