Apple can say whatever they want to say. Their actions speak far louder than their words. They moved all of their Chinese iCloud data to servers in China so the CCP can monitor literally everyone. Apple shut down apps used by protestors when the CCP asked. They recently disabled the ability for protestors to use AirDrop with each other. Apple does whatever China wants. I feel with utmost confidence that Chinese citizens are going to get approximately zero of these encryption and privacy features. They already lack all of the privacy features that everyone else gets to enjoy outside of China. Apple isn't committed to Chinese citizens. They are committed to the CCP.
Is this in 16.2? I wanna get the RC now just to turn this on already lol.
That's the only bad thing about the yearly iOS refresh is waiting for all the new features to come out. By the time we get everything we're promised, the new version of iOS is right around the corner.
I'm most definitely not being unreasonable in regards to Apple. Apple is being unreasonable. They put themselves in this situation by bowing down to China to spite ethics. There's no defending Apple here. It's wrong on every level. They chose money over morals. I understand China is a large market, but Apple would still be an astronomically large company without them. Now they're dealing with manufacturing issues due to China's overbearing lockdowns and are trying to manufacture outside of China.
I agree. I think Apple should work on iOS software 6 months to 1 year in advance so that by September when it is expected to roll out all features should be included and it should be the refined version. Oh well, Apple has been doing this for over a decade now so they got it down very well.That's the only bad thing about the yearly iOS refresh is waiting for all the new features to come out. By the time we get everything we're promised, the new version of iOS right around the corner.
It's what we've come to expect from Apple. I think it secretly just makes us anticipate Apple goodies all year long. It's all part of the plan.
High recommend! I hope next year Apple increases the iCloud backup to 5TB - 10TB. These ProRaw images are taking up lots of space.
You're right, it doesn't affect everyone else, but it's still a serious issue. I can't help but feel deep empathy for our friends in the East. It's really sad.
Yeah. Seriously. They need to have much bigger plans. I'll happily pay for mass storage.
This is definitely the fallout of CSAM. They had only two viable paths… They run CSAM detection scans since they had the photos unencrypted on their servers or they encrypt it on the device and they can’t be responsible for it since they can’t access the data.This is really big, surprising move from Apple, probably part of the reason of dropping CSAM, but I have this feeling that the government no longer needs these keys because of the advances in quantum computing.
Google now it is your turn, Apple called your bluff.
They know that any backdoor will eventually be exploited by an attacker. And I think (at least part of) the government knows this too by now.
You didn’t watch the video, did you?
Correct. It is end-to-end. That's what it's saying.
This changes the old reality. So the answer would be. Yes, they would be encrypted.
FWIW the one time I've been seriously hacked was by my ex-wife (who knew my personal details, planted trojans and then later hired a professional when I started shutting things down - a major breach of what I'd assumed was a solid trust relationship). She'd also spam me... I'd get upwards of 200 e-mails per day from her/alts that I had to deploy a dedicated spam filter for (hint: iPhones don't do spam filtering).On a serious note, with anything really worth keeping private, I use GPG before uploading to the cloud. I used to keep sensitive local files encrypted as well (likely overkill now?) and have been using PGP since the late 90's.
Wait what is that black helicopter doing outside my window? Knock, knock Neo.
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Nah, quantum computing isn’t quite there yet.I have this feeling that the government no longer needs these keys because of the advances in quantum computing.
For data stored on Apple’s servers, yes. For the data stored on your devices, Apple could conceivably inject code on demand to siphon the locally unencrypted data, though I would assume they’ll only write (not to speak of deploy) such code once they’re legally forced to.
I doubt it. That wasn't using E2EE. That was probably just buggy Windows integration support. Probably related to some sort of transcode pipeline. It would be nice if Apple made it easier to keep a local backup on an external drive though.
