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>My read is that Apple is trying to placate governments by throwing them a bone You would believe this if you only read/watch Apple PR and ignore reality. The
by simion314 5y ago
>My read is that Apple is trying to placate governments by throwing them a bone
You would believe this if you only read/watch Apple PR and ignore reality. The actual reality is that Apple always collaborates with all governments. The reality is that Apple did not announce any new end to end encryption that would use this feature and did not promise such a feature.
- api 5y agoApple isn't altruistic, but I do think they want to have strong privacy. They cooperate with governments to what seems to be the minimum extent required to do business in a given country. They can't change governments. In China and other more authoritarian nations that means cooperating a lot. If you don't you do no business in China. In the USA they seem to be looking for a new minimum level of cooperation, or trying to enhance privacy a little without moving the needle. In any case this particular strategy looks like a failure in the market. They might re-engineer it or backpedal or just toss the whole idea of encrypting iCloud.
- simion314 5y ago>Apple isn't altruistic, but I do think they want to have strong privacy. Maybe if you define privacy that Google and FB do not track you and only Apple do. You open an application on your Mac and the event was sent insecure to Apple , find a definition of privacy that is not contradictory with what Apple was doing.