I wish the tech world would leave M$ behind. They are spreading their enshitification to everything they touch in order to stay dominant. Like requiring secure boot, because they care about our security, while also allowing 50 flavors of anti cheat/DRM software to fuck around in the kernel. Kick rocks Microsoft.
Color toner has its own problems so that doesn’t change much.
Trust me when I say, there is no reaching this one. He only knows how to regurgitate keynote talking points. Apple is secure and collects zero user data according to him…because they said so. It’s no wonder apple doesn’t allow 3rd party app stores. These people need their hand held.
Need a source for that, m8. Otherwise you’re just blindly throwing around conspiracies with no proof that they harvest any data (which you haven’t linked to during this entire conversation)
This was 2 years ago but you can find more up to date numbers with a quick search and it’s only increased since this Forbes article was written.
All data on any Apple device is encrypted by default. Once you decide to send it to iCloud, they give you an option to turn on Advanced Data Protection (ADP), which allows you to encrypt your data with your own keys in true end-to-end fashion. That means they do not have the keys. This is optional at the moment because not all supported apple devices can use this feature, and also it isn’t authorized for use with certain accounts (like children accounts). It also requires that the user store the keys offline in a way they won’t lose them, because if they lose the keys, there is no way for Apple to let you recover that data since they don’t have the keys themselves.
You just repeated back what I just told you but with more details. The end to end encryption of iCloud is not the default so most users are not end to end encrypted. The device encryption is standard across the board for when it comes to mobile devices and this isn’t something that makes apple special. This also doesn’t prevent apple from accessing the data on the device. Which again could be the case but we have no way of knowing without the source code.
Again, the documentation that I posted earlier that you are just brushing off have their entire security and privacy processes laid out for you to read. If you are refusing to accept that Apple and multiple government and private organizations came together to create those standards, then thats on you denying the science and research behind it. So do you, boo.
Again these certifications are held by many manufacturers of mobile phones. You seem to think this makes them incapable of having backdoors and that just isn’t the case. All they are verifying is that their encryption methods and the hardware performing the encryption are working as intended. They are in no way a guarantee of privacy or a guarantee that Apple won’t write code to access user data. If that were the case then everyone else with these certifications would also be making ads about how secure they are. They can all theroughly document their process for handling biometrics, keys, ECT but that still doesn’t show us the source code. Even if you think some magical system exists that can scan the source for backdoors, and these private organizations run apples source through this system to certify them, you still have no guarantee that the backdoor wasn’t added immediately after it was certified. Trusted security is open source and apple doesn’t have it. It doesn’t matter how many stickers they slap on it or how many promises they make.
Lastly Apple constantly emphasizes a commitment to privacy as a fundamental human right, built on principles like data minimization, on-device processing, transparency and control, and security but that load of bullshit went out the window when China tested them on it. They reversed course on all of it, including what they consider to be a human right, just to make some money.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-privacy-censorship.html
I’m done with this. Ads in this case are just one aspect. Apples ad service is a multi billion dollar part of their business and if you think they’ve done that with zero ad targeting you’re being extremely naive.
Harvesting data in this case is also extremely vague and doesn’t have to involve ads at all. If they’re advertising privacy and security then it obviously should be about more than ad targeting data. It should be the case that they have no access to any user data on the device or being stored in the cloud. For instance iCloud storage is not end to end encrypted by default, instead Apple has the encryption keys and can decrypt user data at any time.
You absolutely cannot guarantee privacy and security without knowing exactly what’s going on behind the scenes, especially when we are talking about a company that is more beholden to shareholders than its own users.
Apple above all has more access than any 3rd party app. You simply have no way of knowing what apple is doing behind the scenes without the source code. You are merely taking their word for it.
So we are back to Apples promises of privacy and security being meaningless because you can’t verify that any of these claims are valid. The hardware may be secure but that doesn’t mean much in this case.
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/11062200?hl=en#zippy=%2Cnist-fips----cmvp-cavp
Pixel devices have the same certificates. Does this mean Google can’t harvest my data?
You are still insisting that these stop apple from writing software to harvest user data. The chips can work and the software can still be flawed or malicious. You seem to think that these certifications make it impossible to write malicious software for this hardware. You fundamentals don’t understand what you’re implying.
None of these articles are proof of anything and again you’re just taking their word for it. None of this is apple open sourcing the software for audit and none of these certifications makes them special. This is like saying a Microsoft Surface device passed all of these certifications and checks so it can’t get malware.
I’m advocating for people to stop treating Apple like some defender of privacy and security. If any of these things comes between apple and profits, they will not hesitate to bend the rules like they’ve done for China.
This. Their customer base doesn’t tell Apple what they like. Apple tells its customer base what they’re going to like.
When it comes to user tracking for the purposes of targeting ads they’re pretty deceptive. https://blog.lockdownprivacy.com/2021/09/22/study-effectiveness-of-apples-app-tracking-transparency.html
When it comes to Apple intelligence they skirt the question by not actually collecting the data themselves. Instead they rely on third parties to harvest the data and apple shows up to collect whatever they’ve rounded up.
The rest is based on the fact that all security claims made by Apple are near impossible to audit. You just have to take their word for it and for a company that makes such a ridiculous effort to paint themselves as secure and private, you shouldn’t have to just take their word for it.
I get that but they aren’t constantly tooting their own horn about how private and secure they are.
Apples AI exists because of the data mining others have done. They are no more private than other high end names in their markets. With Tim Cook or without him Apple deserves to fail and if this country wasn’t so engrossed in consumerism they probably would have. They’re anti-competition, anti-consumer, tax dodging, and willing to do any amount of knee bending to Donald to keep numbers up. Who cares about their vision.
I do love a good fiskars product.
It’s not arguable or debatable and China is no better.
IMO you’re either playing dumb or just simply out of touch with what’s been going on. I think it’s clear without saying the original meaning and intention of the word Zionism is accepted here but it’s most recently used as an excuse or a reason to commit genocide and wage war indiscriminately.
Because he’s a giant moron douche.
Sounds like space x wants a seat at the top of the “burn this shit down” list. We have to stop letting these shit heads get away with this stuff.