Re:Apple is now a privacy-as-a-service company
by SquishyPanda23 on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @09:39AM
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Do you mean you think privacy and control are orthogonal goals?
They aren't quite orthogonal because if you have root on your device, then you limit the security guarantees Apple can make about their privacy measures.
This is a fairly deep problem in the sense that there is a tradeoff between having a secure enclave to support interesting security protocols on the one hand, and the fact that a secure enclave almost by definition means you don't fully own the machine on the other.
They aren't quite orthogonal because if you have root on your device, then you limit the security guarantees Apple can make about their privacy measures.
This is a fairly deep problem in the sense that there is a tradeoff between having a secure enclave to support interesting security protocols on the one hand, and the fact that a secure enclave almost by definition means you don't fully own the machine on the other.