Re:macOS is background scanning and following downloaded QR ...
by yellowapple on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @12:24PM
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> This doesn't have to anything nefarious
It doesn't have to be explicitly nefarious to be a privacy issue. I'm sure there's some perfectly innocuous reason Apple could come up with for doing this, but unless and until Apple is forthcoming with those reasons and is transparent in how this is implemented (i.e. by providing source code) I have zero reason to take any such reason at face value.
Transparency is a dependency of trust. Apple is not transparent, and therefore is not trustworthy - especially when it's running a full-blown crawler on ostensibly-private messages.
It doesn't have to be explicitly nefarious to be a privacy issue. I'm sure there's some perfectly innocuous reason Apple could come up with for doing this, but unless and until Apple is forthcoming with those reasons and is transparent in how this is implemented (i.e. by providing source code) I have zero reason to take any such reason at face value.
Transparency is a dependency of trust. Apple is not transparent, and therefore is not trustworthy - especially when it's running a full-blown crawler on ostensibly-private messages.