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> does the concern still apply? Yes it does and the blogpost specifically explains why. In short, both iOS and macOS are full of bugs, often with the potentia
by isodev 2y ago
> does the concern still apply?
Yes it does and the blogpost specifically explains why.
In short, both iOS and macOS are full of bugs, often with the potential of exposing sensitive information.
Also, it’s on by default - nobody in their sane mind would have bits of their photos uploaded somewhere, regardless of “we promise we won’t look”.
Finally, Photos in iOS 18 is such a bad experience that it seems the breach of privacy was fundamentally unjustified as no meaningful improvement was introduced at all.
- Thorrez 2y ago>regardless of “we promise we won’t look”. AIUI, even if Apple's servers tried to look, they cannot, because of the encryption.
- isodev 2y agoEncryption does not automatically mean secure. Encryptions can and will be broken. Any flaw in their implementation (which nobody can verify) would render encryption useless…
- supriyo-biswas 2y agoI wonder where you'd draw the line. Do you also distrust TLS for example, and therefore refuse to use the internet? What about AES/Chacha for full-disk encryption?
- isodev 2y agoThe line is very simple - my content stays on device, secured (locally) with the current modern and practical tools.
- Thorrez 2y agoSure, but it's more than a promise that they won't look. Apple currently believes it's impossible to look.
- isodev 2y agoApple is not a person, they don’t “believe” anything. As a corporation, they “calculate” what they can say without getting into more trouble than they’re willing to entertain.
- Thorrez 2y agoApple is a group of people. It's not run by AI. I was specifically talking about the people in Apple who work on the feature and wrote the documentation for the feature.