Push is a just technique for minimizing (scarce wireless) bandwidth, battery and RAM consumption, which was critical in the mass deployment of the initial iPhon

Push is a just technique for minimizing (scarce wireless) bandwidth, battery and RAM consumption, which was critical in the mass deployment of the initial iPhone on AT&T. iPhone developers typically aren’t very skilled and they will stuff things into APNS payloads without thinking through the consequences (they’re just happy to get something working at all and more often than not, are in some remote country that doesn’t allow familiarizing with the user context) so this is definitely a privacy concern whether due to legal interception or hacking. Perhaps a future version of SwiftUI (and what Xcode Cloud may evolve into) will implement a simple E2E Push scheme by default, allowing Apple to spend more time reviewing the Push API use by the remaining legacy apps. But…take comfort in knowing that at least Apple’s server is not purposely located across national boundaries (like Blackberry). That’s good because users have no expectation of privacy from monitoring (by US government or otherwise) when using servers (or when they themselves are) on foreign soil. Meanwhile, US let 12,000 unknown persons literally wander across the border in just a single day last week (US can only handle 1,000 border crossers on a good day) and some are committing horrible crimes (https://foxsanantonio.com/amp/newsletter-daily/undocumented-migrant-charged-with-16-year-old-cheerleaders-murder-edna-texas-investigation-rangers-police-evidence https://foxsanantonio.com/amp/newsletter-daily/undocumented-...) —and yes, they do have Android and iPhones. The US is also sinking another $1T in (unfunded) debt every 90 days (meaning another Great Depression is not out of the question) and maybe it’s time to better focus our resources, for example, (after 40 years) China seems just about done surveying western IP and is clearly moving into a new era by having their massive APT groups (collectively 50x larger than US cyber forces) operate crude things like MoonBounce deployments —we have almost no monitoring for factory-installed threats, we’re totally wide open. https://youtu.be/j7OHG7tHrNM https://youtu.be/j7OHG7tHrNM