Apple Employee Threatens to Leak User’s iCloud Data

Re:Apple Employee Threatens to Leak User’s iCloud Data by jtbayly on Thursday March 08, 2018 @10:15AM (#16544789)

So what's your takeaway? I would assume that the last thing the state would want to do is sow uncertainty about Apple's security in China. This would lead me to the conclusion that the story is real.

However, I can imagine another scenario. Assume that Apple's storage in China is still entirely safe from the state, but that Apple's main competitors are totally in bed with the state. In that case, the state could want to get people off of Apple, even as Apple moves the data into China.

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Re:Apple Employee Threatens to Leak User’s iCloud Data by threwaway-1 on Thursday March 08, 2018 @11:08AM (#16545197)

The latter would be my takeaway as well, based on how effectively Google's search technology was extricated from China -- to Baidu's and the surveillance state's benefit, despite the results from Baidu being about as effective at finding useful information as AltaVista was at the end of it's reign.

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