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		mirimir on Jan 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FB... 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.

amluto on Jan 22, 2020 [–]

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

https://www.libimobiledevice.org/

mirimir on Jan 22, 2020 | [–]

Does this work with current iOS?

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

tbodt on Jan 22, 2020 | | [–]

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

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