Pacific on Tuesday. The downtime is ongoing at the time of this writing. As its name suggests, iCloud Backup allows users to backup device settings, app data and other critical assets to the cloud for later retrieval. Like local backups to iTunes, device backups to the cloud provide peace of mind in the case of a drastic system failure.
More frequently, however, iCloud Backup is used to provision and move data over to newly purchased devices. For example, a customer purchasing a new iPhone might use iCloud Backup to transfer over saved device preferences, call histories, iMessage strings, App Store purchases and more from their previous device. Cloud Backup also handles Apple Watch backups. Apple notes less than one percent of users are impacted by the outage, but with an install base of millions, that number runs into the hundreds of thousands.
The company failed to specify the origin of today's troubles, but it can be assumed that engineers are working to resolve the issue. Apple has not commented on the downtime and does not provide estimates as to when a fix will be in place. Update: Apple resolved the issue at approximately 5 a.m.
RS: Yeah. So tell us about encryption. WB: Well, I think, I think the issue here with Apple is that Apple put in software that only, for example, does several things; it doesn't, it only allows you ten tries maximum on guessing what the password is. And if you fail ten times in a row, it erases what data it has on the phone.
RS: So let me just set the record straight here. There's pre-Snowden and after Snowden. Can we trust your devices, In the case of China, Apple is up against Chinese-owned companies operating that are highly competitive, making phones, also doing search engines and everything else. And so multinational companies like Apple and Google are under pressure to say, in the post-Snowden world, no; we are not just rolling over for the NSA and the CIA.
We are actually multinational corporations loyal to our consumers. That's sort of the main issue, isn't it, WB: I think for them, yes, because they'll lose market share if they don't try to--if they don't make it a convincing case that they're actually trying to protect their customers' privacy. No one denies that you had, you know, highest level of efficiency in ranking and knowledge of this. So what's your assessment,
WB: Well, my basic sense of it is that this is all just nonsense that they're saying; what they're doing is trying to cover up for their unprofessional incompetence. They have all the data anyway already, and they knew all these people, even before 9/11 we knew who the terrorist network was worldwide.
RS: Well, let's address that. Because in a sense, you're saying that Apple is a scapegoat here. RS: That the government is going after Apple to conceal the fact of their incompetency. And so you were inside this system as deeply as one can be; take us into that world without jeopardizing your freedom. ] I understand that. And you could tell us about your own brush with the law.
WB: Ah, okay. Well, that was back in the 1990s; I mean, you know, I was the technical director at the time of the world geopolitical and military intelligence production. 3,200,000, about, to develop that from scratch and get it operational. And they gave me a list of 18, and I said OK, these are our targets.
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