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Could you be more precise? Reengineered what? iCloud mail, CalDAV, and WebDAV are not encrypted. So, I guess you are referring to iCloud backups? Did anyone repeat the mud puddle test with iOS 8?

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/04/icloud-who-h...

If you are referring to actually remotely retrieving information from a device: they could still fulfil request by pushing the targeted user a signed application update with a trojan.

As someone said in one of the other Apple PR topics: it's as much a political problem as a technical problem. Since Apple, Google, and Microsoft are able to push any update to devices, they can always be forced to put backdoors on devices.




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