Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17

Re:Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17 by gruez on Thursday December 14, 2023 @11:36PM (#38651031)

That definition quickly becomes absurd. If I run "cat a.txt b.txt" but only give it authorization to read a.txt, does that mean Richard Stallman (or whoever wrote the program) is breaking the law? You might say consent is implied in that case but:

1. I thought implied consent was out of fashion these days

2. What if it's something like an IDE that reads the surrounding directories? VS code does that and I certainly didn't know that feature even existed before I first opened it, so how could have given authorization? Is Microsoft in breach of the CFAA?

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Re:Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17 by funcDropShadow on Friday December 15, 2023 @04:42AM (#38652560)

> 2. What if it's something like an IDE that reads the surrounding directories?

Reading the directory in a software running on your computer is not the problem. The question is, is data from the surrounding directories transmitted to somebody else's computer, a.k.a. The Cloud?

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