Apple’s automated backups are making every iPhone owner vulnerable
Nov17
Earlier this year, Apple went toe-to-toe with the FBI over the company’s refusal to unlock the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. After refusing a court order to assist, Apple emerged as the great protector of user privacy. But was this all a farce? It seems that private information still escapes from Apple products under certain circumstances – the latest being the company’s online syncing service iCloud. According to The Intercept: Russian digital forensics firm Elcomsoft has found that Apple’s mobile devices automatically send a user’s call history to the company’s servers if iCloud is enabled — but the data gets uploaded in many instances…
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