I was reading the current news item on The Register about the dev that got totally banned from Apple because the gift card he tried to use was (bad, counterfeit, defective, whatever???) He lost all services, including anything on icloud, Imessage, etc. Effectively his whole online life. Blackballed was the term. Of course, any attempt to contact Apple has run into AI idiots.
That got me to thinking about runaway and stupid AI agents that are replacing people. What would I lose if it happened to me?
iCloud would not be a problem. I only use it to move stuff between devices. In my opinion, people (and businesses) that live in the cloud are going to die horribly in the cloud in the near term. My backups are stored locally and in multiple physical locations. But, no matter...
iMessage I could replace. Would't want to until somebody fixes SMS and security, but it would work.
Since I am not a phone person, getting a few messages per day and seldom a real call that isn't spam, I could switch to Android pretty easily.
But what about all the passkeys in my keychain? The passwords? Could they somehow lock those out? My research says no, but who knows what hooks they have into downline Macs? Suddenly, no access to bank accounts, retirement accounts, investment accounts...
In the same vein, I always thought that my own programming code was mine, until MacOS 15.1 came out and told me differently. "Sorry, we don't recognize that app as from a valid developer. Into the bit bucket it goes." Or equivalent words. They changed that back quickly, but still...
That article has me really concerned about living almost entirely in the ecosystem of Apple and what could actually happen. My problem, is that I really don't know what COULD actually happen in a worst case scenario.
Thoughts, anyone?
That got me to thinking about runaway and stupid AI agents that are replacing people. What would I lose if it happened to me?
iCloud would not be a problem. I only use it to move stuff between devices. In my opinion, people (and businesses) that live in the cloud are going to die horribly in the cloud in the near term. My backups are stored locally and in multiple physical locations. But, no matter...
iMessage I could replace. Would't want to until somebody fixes SMS and security, but it would work.
Since I am not a phone person, getting a few messages per day and seldom a real call that isn't spam, I could switch to Android pretty easily.
But what about all the passkeys in my keychain? The passwords? Could they somehow lock those out? My research says no, but who knows what hooks they have into downline Macs? Suddenly, no access to bank accounts, retirement accounts, investment accounts...
In the same vein, I always thought that my own programming code was mine, until MacOS 15.1 came out and told me differently. "Sorry, we don't recognize that app as from a valid developer. Into the bit bucket it goes." Or equivalent words. They changed that back quickly, but still...
That article has me really concerned about living almost entirely in the ecosystem of Apple and what could actually happen. My problem, is that I really don't know what COULD actually happen in a worst case scenario.
Thoughts, anyone?
