Rather than face the laborious process of having to defend itself against governmental requests and court orders once again, Apple is said to be looking internally at strengthening its cloud encryption in order to effectively make it impossible to comply with court requests for data in the future. A number of sources who are seemingly familiar with Apple's plans have suggested that the Cupertino-based company is assigning engineering resources to add encryption to iCloud backups in such a manner that it's impossible to comply with valid data requests from government agencies.
