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		multjoy on July 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google’s Nest will provide data to police without ... >If the backup password to these encrypted files is known, it can be rather trivial to access the data within. That's how encryption works...

AndrewUnmuted on July 27, 2022 [–]

That's how Apple's encryption in iCloud works. There are plenty of modern encryption standards that are not broken by a random user merely entering a random passphrase string.

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