I'm kinda sad they removed the notification to the parents but I can see the reasoning. Overall though, I'm still grateful for this feature.
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This kind of stuff makes me sad. Instead of building better devices they are coming up with more ways to invade privacy in the name of keeping people safe. Their software is buggy it's going to cause more harm than good.
??? what are you even talking about?
People want to say Steve Jobs was wrong about CSAM.
But they also want to tell Tim Apple that he’s no Steve Jobs.
But they also want to tell Tim Apple that he’s no Steve Jobs.
Name a portable device for kids that is not Nintendo and not iOS.
Well if you look at the iOS frameworks, they’ve completed disabled IOKit and Darwin.
IOKit | Apple Developer Documentation
Access hardware devices and drivers from your apps and services.developer.apple.com
Darwin
Darwin is the core operating system of Apple's Mac OS X, and runs on an open source kernel called XNU. Apple first released it to the open source community in 2000. Darwin integrates a number of technologies, most importantly the Mach 3.0 kernel, operating system services based on 4.4 BSD...apple.fandom.com
And now they’re adding CSAM, on top of iCloud Relay (keeping your photos private).
Even if I wanted to, it’s impossible for me to pull photos from Google or Amazon locally.
The photos that sit in the GooglePhotos.IPA (the Google Photos iOS app) can only be accessed by the Google Photos iOS app itself.
So I can’t even write an app on iOS to gather and combine all the various photos on your iPhone.
I hope that makes sense.
You can write an app that access the photo library. You can probably also use Google's APIs to access their photos, albeit not locally — but you could, if they stored those photos in a way accessible by the Files app.
For it to be accessible by Files, then it has to go on iCloud and have a CSAM scan performed.
You can check it right now:
Files -> iCloud Drive -> <App Name>
And if you access it via Google Photos API, it also has to have a CSAM scan performed, the same way Facebook scans photos on the internet.
By definition, if you can access it via a web API, then it is not private.
Or to make it super clear, you shouldn’t host porn on the internet. Unless you don’t mind people looking at it.
The world DOESN'T revolve around the US,..though it appears that every American thinks it does
Kindle FOR KIDS. Kindle Fire FOR KIDS.
Monterey on M1 Mac is no longer the case. System volume is shadowed in RAM so users can’t write to it without disabling system security.
Well, at least macOS still has the option to open up the system.
Lol that’s the price of the “freedom” right here.If you want pure computing power, and total control of your OS, get a MacBook Pro for $3,000.
That is true. At the same time, I don’t think I _should_ have access to .kext (Kernel Extension) files that could brick my MacBook Pro.
You can still query IOKit, as far as I understand…
Btw, iOS will prolly be a toy OS for a very long time, unless 100% of workflows from every single industry changes to iOS. macOS is what professionals should go.
I agree. And I think that’s what Steve Jobs envisioned shortly before he passed.
Apple designers or more likely, management doesn’t want to spend extra time thinking through those details, otherwise they could come up with something better.
As for data access, without a computer, good luck pulling anything, ANYTHING out of iPhone without convoluted process that doesn’t involve cloud storage of any kind. This whole “iPhone can do everything” is just dumb and baseless.
“ Speculation that the T2 security chip on modern Macs can be hacked has been confirmed by the team behind the research. A combination of two different exploits would give a hacker the ability to modify the behavior of the chip, and even plant malware like a keylogger inside it.
All Macs sold since 2018 contain the T2 chip, and because the attack uses code in the read-only memory section of the chip, there is no way for Apple to patch it …”
T2 security chip on Macs can be hacked to plant malware - 9to5Mac
Security researchers have confirmed speculation that the T2 security chip on modern Macs can be hacked. A combination of two different exploits ...
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iCloud works by generating a key from a known MAC address belonging to the user. You register this device when you log into iCloud, by authenticating with a known device:
support.apple.com
That key, generated when Apple asks you to sign in, and then clicking “Allow”, decrypts a hash that protects your data.
medium.com
Ultimately Apple uses your hardware as the key to unlock iCloud. And then your Face or Touch ID as the key to unlock hardware.
But people have been able to hack FaceID…
www.forbes.com
It’s a very low probability that someone could access your iCloud data, but it is possible.
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That key, generated when Apple asks you to sign in, and then clicking “Allow”, decrypts a hash that protects your data.
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Ultimately Apple uses your hardware as the key to unlock iCloud. And then your Face or Touch ID as the key to unlock hardware.
But people have been able to hack FaceID…
Apple's iPhone FaceID Hacked In Less Than 120 Seconds
Security researchers attending the annual Black Hat hacker convention in Las Vegas have managed to bypass the iPhone FaceID user authentication in under two minutes.
www.forbes.com
It’s a very low probability that someone could access your iCloud data, but it is possible.
Leaning aside that that feature doesn’t even currently exist, it only applies to iCloud Photo Library, not iCloud Drive. And no, Files also shows local files.
I’m not generally in the business of victim-blaming.
The world DOESN'T revolve around the US,..though it appears that every American thinks it does
I’m German, so I’m not sure what you’re on about.
Yup. If they detect the same email going to 750,000 of their users and they look at one copy of the email and see it’s obviously spam, why would I NOT want them to put it in the spam folder?
This post goes to such lengths to Applesplain Apple’s CSAM debacle that it feels like Apple wrote it.