Windows reads HEVC with an extension from the MS store (free) and HEIF has been supported and built in since Windows 10 in 2018. iCloud on windows just downloads the original versions, at least for me.
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iCloud for Windows Users Complain of Corrupted Videos, Photos From Strangers
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In the past Google photos corrupted a small percentage of users photos. This could be a big issue but iCloud as a service is great.
Someone hacks into a Windows user’s machine using a Trojan (not exactly unheard of). They post random pictures.
Not at all. The physical location is immaterial. What is important is to secure the iCloud servers and client machines. AFAIK iCloud servers have never been compromised. Securing access via Windows machines is another matter. Windows doesn’t exactly have a great reputation there. Stealing credentials (e.g. by phishing) is always going to be a thing. Trojan installations on Windows have always been a worry.
Plase don't be so hard on Apple. After all, it is a small, family business, and can't afford to hire enough high-profile programmers.
Maybe for record primary keys, they use single GUID or UUID fields which turn out to be not so "unique" after all. When retrieving a record using an ID in the backend, it selects a photo with the same ID belonging to a different account.
"More critical than critical" priority is often called "we're out of coffee" 😛
If this is true this can’t be understated.
This is one of the worst data breaches I have heard of and incredibly concerning.
This is one of the worst data breaches I have heard of and incredibly concerning.
Or totally ditch iCloud.Guess you need to buy Apple's hardware
And anyway, this sounds like a backend weird caching or ddup problem, so it may show up on Apple hardware too.
Apple: *messes up big time*
Fanboys: “It’s Microsoft’s fault”
Fanboys: “It’s Microsoft’s fault”
I also use a synology NAS and don't keep hardly anything in iCloud, but this still concerns me, if some certain pics migrate into your stuff, it could be a legal issue, both for yourself, and Apple.
I must admit I haven't used an Apple program on my Windows PC for a long time now (I'm very much platform agnostic using both Mac and Windows interchangeably), but I always found that Apple programmers were great at writing Apple programs for Apple computers but were pretty awful at porting Apple programs to Windows computers, perhaps because their internal culture is so Apple-centric.
That is excellent thinking! This could indeed be the case. What's strange to me is why the photos are appearing 'inside' a video? Why would one file have data from another file?
Wouldn't it make more sense this misery happens in transit? Transmitting network packets from two sources, ending up at one IP, hence the photo-within-a-video?
passwords and pass keys are in the iCloud Keychain, which is end to end encrypted. iCloud photos are not.
Well, we don’t know yet. We don’t even know for sure if these photos are from other people’s libraries. Some comments above have some theories, but IMO we should wait for Apple to say something, or more data to be available.
not quite, though. The public part resides with the service you are using (like github), whereas the private part resides on the device and in the iCloud Keychain, which is end to end encrypted.
although in this case it’s not “iPhone” but rather a cloud service for photo storage.
by “in iCloud photos” do you mean via the web client? Because after syncing down to other devices, they play just fine.
iCloud Photo Library isn’t.
You can just delete them. Sure, you need to trust that Apple actually deletes them. If you don’t, I guess don’t use their services or even products.
I use iTunes on my Windows PC instead of the TV app on my Mac Studio, as it works better. (I really hate the "modern "TV" app, it's even worse than iTunes to me.)
One bank in Poland, mBank, was assigning accounts to newly created accounts in last or 2 years ago.
As a result someone seen someone else data and money, not sure if was able to do something…
„People are dying priority”.
You don't have to do it yourself. Other random unknown people will download them for you.
Indeed, iCloud Keychain is stored in a component called Application Processor which is end to end encrypted
Could you be a little more specific? Is it another Apple ID? I just looked through my keychain, and all looks normal to me.
A crash is categorised as critical if it has a big impact.
Photos getting mixed up with others photos is definitely critical.
If this indeed is only a iCloud on Windows problem, then it sounds like the iCloud app connects to iCloud and downloads files a little like bittorrent, where it gets parts of files from multiple servers. If the app then request the wrong parts, that could explain video with random images and random images in the photo library (image files are smaller and can be downloaded as single parts). But how would the wrong parts be requested?
Bigger question is still how a person's Apple ID is allowed to download other random people's files. There should be checks done mulige places but it sound like the content servers don't check if a client is a allowed to download the things that are requested.
Bigger question is still how a person's Apple ID is allowed to download other random people's files. There should be checks done mulige places but it sound like the content servers don't check if a client is a allowed to download the things that are requested.
There is a website of a hospital in my keychain, that I've never visited and a login+password to its portal for patients. I haven never ever been there, as the hospital is on the other side of my country..