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> I assumed

Oh man, this is my favorite part of the Apple Design Cycle!

1. Apple announces a new feature that is suspiciously invasive and only marginally useful (eg. iCloud Screening, Find My, OCSP, etc.)

2. Self-conscious, Apple releases a security whitepaper that explains how things should work but doesn't let anyone audit their system

3. Users assume that things are okay because the marketing tells them it is okay, and do not ever consider the potential for an exploit

4. The data leaks, either to advertisers, Apple employees, warrantless government allies, government adversaries or OEM contractors

5. Apple customers attempt to absolve themselves of responsibility ("How was I supposed to know?")

I've seen this process so many times at this point that I'm just apathetic to it all. Maybe one day people will learn to stop assuming the best when there is literally no evidence corroborating it.




What data leaks? What are you talking about?


https://www.ifixit.com/News/33801/apple-genius-caught-steali...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/445122/is-icloud-p...

Various oversight issues of that nature. Note: we could know about all of these exploits before-hand if Apple's supposedly-private infrastructure was meaningfully accountable.




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