Michael Tsai on Twitter: "@nickheer But it’s not encrypted in the sense that Apple can’t read it, which is what they talk about with iMessage encryption."

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Nick Heer ‏@nickheer 9 Sep 2015

Nick Heer Retweeted Tze-Ho Tan

@mjtsai Re http://mjtsai.com/blog/2015/09/09/apple-tangles-with-u-s-over-imessage-data-access/ … Just got pointed (https://twitter.com/tze96/status/641802787970396160 …) to a doc that says iCloud backups are encrypted.

Nick Heer added,

Tze-Ho Tan @tze96

@nickheer Re: iCloud backups, Apple says they're encrypted -- https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204136 Maybe it's not encrypted if u don't set a passcode?

‏@mjtsai

@nickheer But it’s not encrypted in the sense that Apple can’t read it, which is what they talk about with iMessage encryption.

7:54 PM - 9 Sep 2015

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