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Re:Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17 on Friday December 15, 2023 @01:31AM (#38651604)
The data wasn’t transmitted, communicated or delivered to Apple. It’s E2E encrypted, so Apple can’t receive it.

The service isn’t capable of delivering the keychain to anything other than the user’s own devices.

Re:Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17 on Friday December 15, 2023 @12:06AM (#38651190)
That’s a weird conspiracy theory. How does anyone figure Apple benefits from this. How is the setting even ‘user hostile’?
Re:Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @11:28PM (#38650996)
> Also I don't understand how you could screw these things up repeatedly for so many features.

Seems like a generic bug in the settings system which is fairly complex. Pretty easy to see how something like that could happen.

Re:Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:42PM (#38650078)
It’s not being appropriated. It’s E2EE. It’s a bug, but nothing more.
Re:Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17 on Thursday December 14, 2023 @08:41PM (#38650069)
What computer resources are being used without authorization?
The fact that some people are snobs doesn’t justify the government dictating software specifications to Apple.
> Of course everyone can switch to Signal and this is a moot point, but millions of Apple users use iMessage and aren't likely to switch.

Doesn’t this mean that most people simply don’t care?