Yesterday, Apple announced a package of three measures to strengthen the security of our data in iCloud. The measures consider being able to use physical security keys to log in to our Apple ID, verify that we really only speak with whom we believe in iMessage and the end-to-end encryption of more and more content on Apple servers.
In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple software chief Craig Federighi sat down to discuss many of these changes with Joanna Stern. The whole interview is really interesting, but there is one part that deserves to be highlighted, and that is the role of encryption in keeping everyone safe.
More encryption, more security. That’s all
For years it seems like there has to be a balance between privacy and security. But the position of Apple and privacy experts has always been clear: privacy keeps us all safe. In this line goes the answer that Federighi gave to the question of whether it was taken into account that governments and security forces want to be able to analyze the data of their citizens.
“We deeply appreciate the work of law enforcement and support the work of law enforcement. We believe that we really have the same goal, which is to keep people safe. Ultimately, the protection customer data has major implications for our overall security There is sensitive information that if a malicious attacker, whether a foreign adversary or organized crime, were to gain access to information from our political leaders or other people holding particular secrets or gaining access to systems, it would spell disaster for all of us.”
“We believe this is important to achieve our shared mission, which is to keep users safe.”
To this response, Stern recalled that, presumably, a few years ago Apple was already considering fully encrypting backup copies in the cloud, but that, again likely due to an FBI complaint, those plans had been suspended. Craig said that is completely untrue and that the sole purpose of the new security measures announced yesterday is stay “one step ahead” of threats and attackers.
While some say privacy can be sacrificed for supposed security, others argue that the only way to ensure security is through confidentiality. These remind us that the protecting the vast majority of users is far more important than being able to investigate just a few of them.
At a time when we store on an iPhone the sensitive data of the company for which we work, the keys to our houses, our health data or our credit cards, security is more important than ever. Now, with end-to-end encryption of even more categories of data in iCloud, This security is taken to the next level.
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