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Apple silently uploads your passwords and keeps them

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Re: Apple silently uploads your passwords and keeps them

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thats how cloud stored password managers work..

They silently enable the option to store in the Cloud on OS update?

They offer no option to delete your passwords from the Cloud once there?

If that's indeed how they all/always work, we shouldn't just Stockholm-syndrome accept it!

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This may be annoying, but it’s uploading encrypted versions of passwords, not passwords themselves. Keychain is end-to-end encrypted so no one else can read them.

Are you sure Apple can’t read them too?

They say they can’t, but it’s impossible to be certain. Although, if you distrust Apple enough to think they might lie about it, you probably wouldn’t want to use any Apple device or services. They already have privileged access to the software and hardware.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure Apple can’t read them too?

They say they can’t, but it’s impossible to be certain. Although, if you distrust Apple enough to think they might lie about it, you probably wouldn’t want to use any Apple device or services. They already have privileged access to the software and hardware.

Yes. SIP means Apple is the real sudo now. You can’t disable their special relationship on their computers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure Apple can’t read them too?

They say they can’t, but it’s impossible to be certain. Although, if you distrust Apple enough to think they might lie about it, you probably wouldn’t want to use any Apple device or services. They already have privileged access to the software and hardware.

> They already have privileged access to the software and hardware.

The fact that the phone manufacturer has a more privileged access than the owner of the phone is absolute insanity.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure Apple can’t read them too?

They say they can’t, but it’s impossible to be certain. Although, if you distrust Apple enough to think they might lie about it, you probably wouldn’t want to use any Apple device or services. They already have privileged access to the software and hardware.

> Although, if you distrust Apple enough to think they might lie about it, you probably wouldn’t want to use any Apple device or services.

It's not even about lies. It's about bugs and vulnerabilities, which every vendor has.

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