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Sadly, I think you are absolutely correct. Lindsay said outright that either tech companies figure it out, or senate will do the figuring for them.

I am not sure Apple made the right move, but.. average person does not seem to care and/or understand the ikplications. Now.. Apple could make them care. They are big enough to make waves and I am not certain goverment could deal with bad PR come election time.

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Sure, but if iOS was open enough, users who cared could use some third party online backup that was actually secure. And it could rely on an app that users could obtain, regardless of whether it was legal or not.

The iPhone is plenty open for this. You just need a computer. The rest is fully open source.

https://www.libimobiledevice.org/

Does this work with current iOS?

And it's not remote, and you must connect via USB-C, right?

Yes and yes. It's a reverse engineered version of what iTunes does.

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