Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by emchammer on Saturday December 28, 2024 @07:01PM (#42536070)

Hypothetical scenario: Theo de Raadt and Bruce Schneier are hired to bring Apple products up to their security standards. They are given a public blog, and they are not required to sign an NDA. They fix every last vulnerability in the architecture. Vladimir Putin can buy MacBooks for himself and his generals in Moscow, enable Advanced Data Protection, and collaborate on war plans in total confidence.

Where are the boundaries in this scenario?

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by saurik on Saturday December 28, 2024 @08:14PM (#42536479)

I am pretty sure that if we had those people in charge of stuff like this there would be no bar above which "opt in by default" would happen, so I am unsure of your point?

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by astrange on Saturday December 28, 2024 @10:01PM (#42537067)

Theo de Raadt is less competent than Apple's security team (and its external researchers). The main thing OpenBSD is known for among security people is adding random mitigations that don't do anything because they thought them up without talking to anyone in the industry.

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by saagarjha on Monday December 30, 2024 @04:13AM (#42547776)

I mean half the reason the mitigations don't do anything is that nobody actually cares to target OpenBSD

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by stevenAthompson on Saturday December 28, 2024 @11:32PM (#42537531)

Freedom of speech can not exist without private communications. It is an inalieanable right, therefore privacy is as well.

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