“User data is never available to Apple — even to staff with administrative access to the production service or hardware”
This is a pretty impressive technical achievement if true. The privacy team at apple built a custom OS and hardware because they don’t even trust employees at apple, which is smart.
There isn’t even remote shell access to the machines. 😯 nostr:note18ha4sfq5feajm3dlq7lhmlzfc26cxe0fwgt7ra29w70lsnsm6eqsfxzwkk
Please tell me I can turn mt WiFi back on…although I haven’t really missed it so far. As long as it doesn’t scramble my #nostr, I’m good to go.
If you listen closely, you can hear the alphabet agencies gnashing their teeth.
This is the result of sitting around for three years watching every other company get burned, while witnessing public sentiment start swinging against big data.
I’m not going to credit it to any altruism, but it’s damn good business sense as long as the features don’t suck in practice.
Perhaps one of the biggest mistakes or failsafes created by Steve Jobs no matter what your opinion is regarding the OS; Apple lost my trust since S5, they bricked 3xS5's in a row, after OS updates.
In Africa that's considered a stick up!
Trusting a corporation to do what it promises is a bit like trusting a politician to do what it promises, isn't it?
not suggesting to trust anything, just am impressed with the claimed technical achievement. If they are lying that seems like a greater liability for them, especially when they are opening their systems to audits from researchers. Why set yourself up to be embarrassed? There are engineers that worked on this system that seem to be proud about it enough to do this writeup.
Didn't mean to imply you were suggesting to trust them and I agree, the claim is impressive.
But if I understand correctly, researchers can't research the closed off code, only what has been disclosed? So could there be hidden back doors?
Also, if we assume Apple's claims are true, Apple still owns users data doesn't it? And so users could have their accounts closed. Great punishment to hold over the heads of users, especially at the behest of a government. Users comply otherwise loose a lifetime of data? Moreover, as people become addicted to AI, the thought of living without it would become unbearable and so, induce compliance to whatever dictate of the day.
In the end, Corp remain in control of its users.
Moreover, you have to have a sense of shame before you can feel embarrassed. The majority of scientists and doctors have made some pretty outrageous claims in recent years, and majority of media outlets have not shamed any of them. And if it was all a lie, 99% of users wouldn't care anyway.
But they can make my phone pretend it's battery is dying.
Plus MacOS is infuriating. How do you move a fucking file?!?!
No thanks. Linux / GrapheneOS FTW.
"if true" 😅
