Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by isodev on Sunday December 29, 2024 @12:53AM (#42537923)

Encryption does not automatically mean secure. Encryptions can and will be broken. Any flaw in their implementation (which nobody can verify) would render encryption useless…

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by supriyo-biswas on Sunday December 29, 2024 @01:01AM (#42537957)

I wonder where you'd draw the line.

Do you also distrust TLS for example, and therefore refuse to use the internet? What about AES/Chacha for full-disk encryption?

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by isodev on Sunday December 29, 2024 @01:11AM (#42538014)

The line is very simple - my content stays on device, secured (locally) with the current modern and practical tools.

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by Thorrez on Sunday December 29, 2024 @01:16AM (#42538030)

Sure, but it's more than a promise that they won't look. Apple currently believes it's impossible to look.

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by isodev on Sunday December 29, 2024 @04:27AM (#42538813)

Apple is not a person, they don’t “believe” anything.

As a corporation, they “calculate” what they can say without getting into more trouble than they’re willing to entertain.

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by Thorrez on Monday December 30, 2024 @05:35PM (#42554300)

Apple is a group of people. It's not run by AI. I was specifically talking about the people in Apple who work on the feature and wrote the documentation for the feature.

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