With all the marketing Apple does around privacy, and all the talk lately of government surveillance around the globe, you would hope that the data for all your Apple cloud services is locked down tight.
You may be surprised that a lot of it, depending on the settings you choose, is not nearly as secure as you may think. Here, we’ll spell out the difference between Apple’s two different encryption methods, discuss the Advanced Data Protection mode, and let you know which services are encrypted in which ways.
Read more at Macworld.com