iOS 7 Update Silently Removes Encryption For Email Attachments

Posted by timothy on Friday May 2, 2014 @11:10AM from the giveth-and-taketh-away dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple has removed encrypted email attachments from iOS 7. Apple said back in June 2010 in regards to iOS 4.0: 'Data protection is available for devices that offer hardware encryption, including iPhone 3GS and later, all iPad models, and iPod touch (3rd generation and later). Data protection enhances the built-in hardware encryption by protecting the hardware encryption keys with your passcode. This provides an additional layer of protection for your email messages attachments, and third-party applications.' Not anymore."

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Title is Misleading by Anonymous Coward · 2014-05-02 11:17 · Score: 5, Informative

The encryption for email attachment was not removed, it was never present.
It's not nefarious, it's incompetent.
Read the original (shorter!) post (http://www.andreas-kurtz.de/2014/04/what-apple-missed-to-fix-in-ios-711.html) instead of the rehashed ad-selling copy.