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		theshrike79 on Jan 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FB... If you can root your device, so can the bad guys.

post_below on Jan 24, 2020 [–]

On iOS it's called jailbreaking. In either case it's been a long time since anyone came up with an exploit that could do it remotely.

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