Wait. What? Do you mean because of the China clause or do you mean in general? Because last I checked I thought they were (unless am misremembering some salient detail).
It would be cool to have a one page thing to point to about this since every time I need to remind myself how it all fits together by reading five different threads and talks
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Categorize the data by Matt Green's "Mud puddle". If phone in mud puddle and forget password, do you still get the data back? iCloud backup: Yes Email account access: Yes iCloud keychain: No
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So I think I was not clear enough in my earlier statement so let me try this again. From what I see, 2FA or some (suboptimal?) version of 2FA where one of the factors is on the user-side is needed to unlock iCloud backup even going by mud puddle analogy. No 2FA not an option now.
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Oh, and believe me it is not quite clear even after that, and not even slightly because one half arsed the readings or research. Literally just last night I sent an obnoxiously long email to
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My understanding is that Apple does not do things any differently in China than in the US, but for Chinese users they do run iCloud stuff on servers located in China, so given the design it's obviously accessible to that government. That and removing the Taiwanese flag emoji...
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I nominate http://techsolidarity.org/resources as the repo
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