Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
by threeseed on Saturday December 28, 2024 @06:18PM
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> they are resorting to subterfuge
This is illogical. If Apple wanted to engage in subterfuge they would simply compromise the OS.
When a company controls the entire stack either you trust everything they do. Or nothing.
Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
by latexr on Saturday December 28, 2024 @08:10PM
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Exactly. It is absolutely bonkers that people are claiming that Apple is trying to cover up something for which they have a settings toggle and public documentation.
Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
by kemayo on Saturday December 28, 2024 @10:23PM
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Yeah, we might quibble about what the default value of the toggle should be, but them adding settings for minor features like this is absolutely a good thing, and very much a sign that they're not trying to hide things.
If anything, the lesson Apple might take from this could be "adding the settings toggle was a bad idea, because nobody would have cared about this at all otherwise".
Since they cannot convince users to enable this feature in good-faith, they are resorting to subterfuge. We know that Apple is vehement about pushing client-side scanning on users that do not want it, I do not believe for a second that this was a mistake or unintended behavior. If this was a bug then it would have been hotfixed immediately to prevent the unintended behavior from reaching any more phones than it already had.