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Ahead of CES, Apple Puts Up Billboard Touting Privacy in Las Vegas
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This wasn’t an iCloud hack. Blackberries and other phones were compromised as well. It was password phishing, not a hack.
You’re either deliberately misleading people or have no idea what you’re talking about. Pick one.
Make a silly, incorrect statement and double-down on it with bold, lies.
Trying to post the first message is okay - but doing it with a false (accusing) statement is idiotic.
Great marketing. Google (or Facebook, both are the same) doesn't have anything to reply with. 
Chiat Day must be back working with Apple, I see.
Chiat Day must be back working with Apple, I see.
In the heart of Las Vegas, where the Consumer Electronics Show is set to kick off next week, Apple has put up a giant sign touting the security of its devices.
The billboard, which was noticed by Engadget's Chris Velazco, plays on an iconic Las Vegas tourism slogan: "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone," reads the sign, which is located near the Las Vegas Convention Center and many prominent Las Vegas hotels.
CES will see thousands of tech industry attendees, members of the media, and tech exhibitors, and Apple's decision to put up a billboard here is interesting as the company does not have a presence at the show.
Apple competitors like Amazon, Samsung, and Google will be present at CES showing off smart home devices, smartphones, and other products, and while Apple employees are likely to be in attendance, Apple will not be highlighting any of its devices at the event.
It's not entirely clear when the billboard was put in place, but it seems clear that it's aimed at CES attendees who will be seeing products from companies with less of a privacy focus like Google and Amazon. Apple is not-so-subtly reminding the tech industry of its heavy emphasis on privacy, with the billboard offering up a link to Apple's dedicated privacy website.
The Consumer Electronics Show starts on Tuesday, January 8 and lasts through the end of the week.
Article Link: Ahead of CES, Apple Puts Up Billboard Touting Privacy in Las Vegas
This is actually very smart, specially since Apple is not known to participate in CES. Because of this, it’ll get attention. It already has.
Apple really stands apart as the one company that has no interest in your data and goes to great lengths to making your data, yours and ensuring that not even they can see it, even if they wanted to or were compelled to by law.
It was a good long term bet because Android can’t ever come close to matching it. The only reason Android exists and why Google gives it away for free to manufacturers is because Google’s entire business depends on monetizing your data.
For all the people arguing how iCloud was breached on not breached: that's not the point. The point is this: The data did leave the phone. What happens in Vegas does literally not stay on the phone.
https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/16/apple-apologizes-for-phishing-scam-account-hack-in-china/
http://fortune.com/2018/10/16/apple-china-accounts-hacked/
https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/16/apple-apologizes-hacked-apple-id-account-details-phished/
http://www.iphonehacks.com/2018/10/apple-apologizes-recent-icloud-account-hacks-china.html
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/16/apple-apologizes-phishing-china/
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/16/teen-pleads-guilty-hacking-apple-servers/
https://appleinsider.com/articles/1...orate-network-accessed-data-and-user-accounts
Hacking seems to be the word used though, even MacRumors
use the word to describe phishing.
Describing it as a hack seems legit, well, according to the media at least.
This is one of the areas where people assume too much regarding iCloud.
Apple can't decrypt the information off iCloud, that much is true (if they're to be believed). However, That encrypted information is still tied to you, it's your blob of encrypted information, this can be passed to the Government. Now can the Government decrypt it? Who knows, maybe not today but as computers get more powerful it's only a matter of time.
The point is, evan though it's encryted, Apple still knows which information is yours and will happily pass it on if subpoenad; it's just that Apple can't read it so that's what they use in their marketing.
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although I think that is a good and smart move, the fact of using an iPhone does not guarantee the privacy. You probably use Amazon, Google and Facebook based services on it so this breaks everything... privacy does not exist on web, we need to assume it.
In the heart of Las Vegas, where the Consumer Electronics Show is set to kick off next week, Apple has put up a giant sign touting the security of its devices.
The billboard, which was noticed by Engadget's Chris Velazco, plays on an iconic Las Vegas tourism slogan: "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone," reads the sign, which is located near the Las Vegas Convention Center and many prominent Las Vegas hotels.
CES will see thousands of tech industry attendees, members of the media, and tech exhibitors, and Apple's decision to put up a billboard here is interesting as the company does not have a presence at the show.
Apple competitors like Amazon, Samsung, and Google will be present at CES showing off smart home devices, smartphones, and other products, and while Apple employees are likely to be in attendance, Apple will not be highlighting any of its devices at the event.
It's not entirely clear when the billboard was put in place, but it seems clear that it's aimed at CES attendees who will be seeing products from companies with less of a privacy focus like Google and Amazon. Apple is not-so-subtly reminding the tech industry of its heavy emphasis on privacy, with the billboard offering up a link to Apple's dedicated privacy website.
The Consumer Electronics Show starts on Tuesday, January 8 and lasts through the end of the week.
Article Link: Ahead of CES, Apple Puts Up Billboard Touting Privacy in Las Vegas
I'm calling from apple customer care. Look at your iPhone you can see it's legit. Can i take your password please....
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I let go of privacy a long time ago when MySpace was hacked. And Adobe. And everyone else. Haveibeenpwned.com will just open everyone's eyes.
Privacy doesn't exist.
I thinks some of it is psychological - the internet is a complex thing to understand. Convenience, ease of use, popularity of social networks etc means most consumers will just use them and not question it. It’s probably similar to the nothing to hide idea. Until something happens to an individual that causes great harm to that person, they won’t care. People like things to be simple and easy to understand. They don’t want to be lectured on security or how social networks & Google make money because all of the stuff I mentioned at the start of this reply outweighs them.
You could say it’s why the majority of people don’t stop and think enough about environmental impact with meat eating etc. They think their decisions don’t make much of a difference. Only when the world goes to **** and it harms individually, they’ll stop and think. It’ll be too late by then
So the Consumer Electronics Show is wherever?What else we going to read in here?.....
Its semantics , a hack still occurred .
A secure system would not allow weak passwords or would enforce two factor .
A hack is when someone gains access to your account.
For those that feel better about it , iCloud “servers” were not hacked to retrieve personal data.
[doublepost=1546682791][/doublepost]Love my iPhone for the security aspect .
One thing I am not impressed by , it’s the constant phishing scams, where they know how to target Apple emails
How true . If you have something in a cloud , or connected to the internet , jokes on you if you think it’s secure . Done right you will get hacked , and continue being smug that you only fools with weak passwords get hacked .
Like this story , everyone was oblivious to the hack, and this is the reality. It’s not if, it’s when .
https://thehackernews.com/2018/08/apple-hack-servers.html?m=1
This is to act as a counter-argument against all the Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant connected devices which will be centre stage at this year's CES. The ones that will harvest all their owners' data as soon as you confirm the TOS to start using the product.
Hence I don’t use non Apple apps on my iPhone unless I read full privacy disclosure. So far I only get 3 apps up there: Things, Fantastical and Outlook.
how childish and desperate... even apple doesnt believe in it or arent you going to use iphone at all and keep it inside the shiny apple box in a closet??
no surfing? not buying stuff (e.g. amazon). no emails? no messages? no skype, no to all?
not along time ago: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-08/is-apple-really-your-privacy-hero
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I think you’re missing the meaning of the ad: apple doesn’t make money from your data and is probably the company who cares the most about user privacy. They just phrased it to make a nod to “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”. There are many things wrong with apple this days, but the one thing they make right is user privacy.
Of course data left the phone. It’s a phone.
I think you’re partially off base here. Apple doesn’t promise/guarantee anyone from any type of security breach. The reality is, the point of one’s privacy is protected on the iPhone or device itself through the security of Apples encryption through iOS, which is fairly stringent from outward attacks. Is privacy protected on the Internet? That depends on what the user is involved in, but there are ways to mitigate privacy based on what you participate in.
If your password is 123456 and your data gets hacked, would you blame Apple for their weak security?