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Thus far, I\u2019m glad I did.<\/p>\nThus far, I\u2019m glad I did.<\/p>\n
The encryption is seamless. I\u2019ve noticed no data speed drop. All my devices still access iCloud just as they did before.<\/p>\n
The only question is, \u201cWill Apple hold the line against the UK government?”<\/p>\n
I find that I\u2019m using \u201cNotes\u201d a bit more. \u201cNotes” is handy for some things like a temporary password or what have you. I always hesitated to put anything of a critical nature in \u201cNotes\u201d mostly because of security concerns.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If I was hacking into an iCloud account, \u201cNotes\u201d is the first place I\u2019d wander through for interesting information about the person I was hacking.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m also more comfortable with some photos being stored in the encrypted iCloud. (Hey, we all have some photos that we don\u2019t necessarily want out on the internet!) There\u2019s no reason for us to be providing free thrills to some hacker. We wouldn\u2019t want to cut into our OnlyFans account revenue now would we???<\/p>\n
I also don\u2019t think too much about documents being stored in iCloud as much as I did before.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That was always a concern to me. The thought of having personal correspondence sitting unencrypted in the cloud was a big risk. That meant that some things I would only do on my computer and any saved documents were always saved locally, or to my network storage only.<\/p>\n
But that also means that if the computer was lost, stolen, or destroyed, those documents would be lost as well, if they weren\u2019t stored on my local network storage.<\/p>\n
The setup process was remarkably simple. I chose to enable ADP from my computer. No particular reason other than with the larger screen, I didn\u2019t need my glasses. I also knew that the recovery key was going to be a long string of numbers and letters, and wanted to be sure that I stored it in print and digitally somehow.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What was interesting is that the encryption was pretty much immediate across all devices. There may have been a message saying that it could take some time before everything was available depending on how much information I had stored in iCloud, but if there was a time delay, I didn\u2019t notice it.<\/p>\n
I will be curious to see how iCloud handles me transitioning to a new phone, computer, or iPad in the future. But I\u2019m looking at that as a bridge to burn later.<\/p>\n
Thus far, the result is ADP is functional and I\u2019m tempted to recommend everyone use it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My thinking is, if we\u2019re all using it, then Apple will have more incentive to tell authoritarian governments like the UK to \u201cEMusk\u201d it.<\/p>\n
a.k.a. \u201cGo Fuck Yourself”<\/p>\n
That interview Elon Musk did was epic! I think telling someone they can EMusk as a euphemism for go fuck yourself should be adopted.<\/p>\n
Time to get on with the day…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thus far, I\u2019m glad I did. The encryption is seamless. I\u2019ve noticed no data speed drop. All my devices still access iCloud just as they did before. The only question is, \u201cWill Apple hold the line against the UK government?” I find that I\u2019m using \u201cNotes\u201d a bit more. \u201cNotes” is handy for some things … <\/p>\n