Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?
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Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?
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Re: Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?
#2I assume for the same reason the OS pings Cupertino when you run a binary - surveillance, masquerading as protection.
Re: Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?
#3I assume for the same reason the OS pings Cupertino when you run a binary - surveillance, masquerading as protection.
Yes, the safe assumption is that Apple reads all your mail. Not that any other provider is better---most are probably worse.
Re: Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?
#4I assume for the same reason the OS pings Cupertino when you run a binary - surveillance, masquerading as protection.
Yes, the safe assumption is that Apple reads all your mail. Not that any other provider is better---most are probably worse.
I don't think they read all of it. Probably just metadata. But would be good to know what's being sent.
Re: Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?
#5Fun activity: install glasswire on windows for a day or 2, set it to prompt you before any connection is allowed, and watch as about 500 different windows components attempt connections with Microsoft as a result of any and every action. And how many onedrive exes randomly fire off throughout the day despite having never once used it. And how onedrive changes its version number every day when it realizes it can’t connect.
Re: Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?
#6Probably Handoff and cross-device application state syncing.
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#8Everyone wearing their tinfoil hat while using Gmail and drive for everything
Re: Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?
#9Everyone wearing their tinfoil hat while using Gmail and drive for everything
Gmail doesn't pretend to be private.
Re: Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, the safe assumption is that Apple reads all your mail. Not that any other provider is better---most are probably worse.
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Figure they do it for three-letter agencies who’re not in my threat model, otherwise I’d have to spend much time busying with… Whonix? Tails? Qubes?
And lose/reimplement my Universal Clipboard and AirDrop and iMessage… (so yeah I deserve consequences of my love of convenience)
Though the more Apple fails to choose the good soap the more I should worry https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074631