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Is this some theater? There's tonnes of metadata on everything that's E2E encrypted available to Apple, including raw checksums, creation and last accessed time
by phillipseamore 4y ago
Is this some theater? There's tonnes of metadata on everything that's E2E encrypted available to Apple, including raw checksums, creation and last accessed timestamps along with access counts - that would be more than enough for metadata crunching three letter agencies. It also seems that every file is encrypted with it's own checksum as the key (only way I know they can do de-duplication).
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303#advanced https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303#advanced
- cptcobalt 4y agoActually, you're right, that's a concerning amount of data. Access and edit dates seem reasonable, but filenames and checksums feel like they go too far. In any case, there are just too many fingerprints here, even under the guise of "deduplication and optimization".