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Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by runlevel1 on Friday August 06, 2021 @08:24PM (#28094410)
So the attacker only needs to get access to your iCloud. Your iPhone will happily sync down photos uploaded elsewhere.

You don't have to be paying for iCloud, either. There's a free tier, so I'd imagine almost all iPhones are using some tier of it.

iCloud account break-ins aren't exactly rare. An accusation, even if false, could ruin an innocent person's life.

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Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by nerdponx on Saturday August 07, 2021 @07:40AM (#28097807)
Not only is there a free tier, but the iPhone defaults are cleverly configured so that you quickly fill it up with random junk on your phone, and feel pressured into paying for more iCloud storage, because the default sync behavior is so non-obvious, and the settings to disable it are buried.

I know multiple people (most of them in their 50s or older) who started paying for iCloud because they thought it was their only option.

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Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by mercora on Saturday August 07, 2021 @02:23AM (#28096244)
> There's a free tier, so I'd imagine almost all iPhones are using some tier of it.

i was quite surprised to see this was the default or at least was setup unknowingly to me.

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Re:Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competi... by simondotau on Saturday August 07, 2021 @08:52AM (#28098233)
If this was going to happen, it would have already happened on Android, Gmail, OneDrive, or any of dozens of services which already do what Apple is now doing.

Or are you saying that malicious activity is only interesting if it was on an Apple device?

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