In the middle of the fight between Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), si FBI new information has appeared that puts in a different light the protection enjoyed by iDevice users who share their data from terminals in iCloud, the backups made through this service not being as secure as the data secured in iOS.
More precisely, Apple can access any kind of data stored by us in iCloud, and based on a court order, any government agency or police authority on the planet can ask for them, Apple helping the FBI and various other police organizations over time.
Even in the case of the San Bernadino terrorists' iPhone, the Apple company offered data from the iCloud backup of that terminal, those from the FBI also wanted to decrypt the data saved in the device, which Apple claims it cannot do now or in the future future.
Although the data in iDevices can be secured to the point where they cannot be accessed by Apple or decrypted by government agencies, in the case of iCloud things are different because of the way the iCloud backup system was designed .
More precisely, the Apple company must be able to access the data saved by users in iCloud in order to be able to restore them after a restore or deletion of the terminals, this being impossible if the information is encrypted as well as it happens directly in iOS.
However, in the case of iCloud, while security must also be strong, Apple says it must leave itself the ability to help the user restore their data, since that's a key purpose of the service. This difference also helps dictate Apple's response to law enforcement requests. The company's position is that it will provide whatever relevant information it has to government agencies with proper, legal requests. However, it says, it doesn't have the information needed to open a passcode-protected iPhone, so it has nothing to give. In the case of iCloud backups, however, it can access the information, so it can comply.
Although as a rule iCloud backups can be decrypted and accessed by the Apple company, the exceptions to this rule are passwords saved in iCloud Keychain, passwords for Wi-Fi networks and passwords used to access third-party services through applications from iDevices.
Practically all people who want to have their data in complete safety do not have to use iCloud where some of them can be accessible, the information stored only in iDevices can be encrypted extremely well by the Apple company, this difference between the types of backup- will continue to exist in the future.
