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Nobody expects their text messages to be backed up. They get deleted and people shrug.
Or IOW, Googles solution affects only messages. Apple’s solution affects your whole digital life so the consequences are a lot more dire.
Apple's commitment to privacy and security is really cool to see. It's also an amazing strategic play that they are uniquely in the position to take advantage of. Google and Meta can't commit to privacy because they need to show you ads, whereas Apple feels more like a hardware company to me.
Can someone explain what the real difference is to a consumer user between an iPhone and a Pixel or a Samsung device? Across all services, push notifications, and device backups. Both promise security, Apple promises some degree of privacy. Google stores your encryption keys, and so does Apple unless you opt in for ADP. Is it similar to Facebook Messenger (encrypted in transit and at rest but Meta can read it) and Te…
Differences in capabilities, experience and implementation are all downstream from that. In other words, everyone pays lip service to privacy and security, but it's very difficult to believe that parties like Meta or Google are actually being honest with you. The incentives just aren't there.
With Apple, you get to fork over your wallet, but at least you seem the be primarily the user they've got to provide services to.
With Google/Meta, you're a sucker to bleed dry.
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Apple sells some ads yes. But it’s a tiny fraction of their revenue. Would Google or Meta go bankrupt if they stopped selling ads? Yes. Apple wouldn’t.
As long as you don’t count the $25 billion that Apple gets from Google.
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modeless linked to this article earlier today: https://james.darpinian.com/blog/apple-imessage-encryption/ My current understanding of the facts: 1. Google defaults to encrypted backups of messages, as well as e2e encryption of messages. 2. Apple defaults only to e2ee of messages, leaving a massive backdoor. 3. Closing that backdoor is possible for the consumer, by enabling ADP (advanced data protection) on your devi…
Enabling ADP breaks all kinds of things in Apple’s ecosystem subtly with incredibly arcane errors. I was unable to use Apple Fitness+ on my TV due to it telling me my Watch couldn’t pair with the TV. The problem went away when turning off ADP. To turn off ADP required opening a support case with Apple which took three weeks to resolve, before this an attempt to turn off would just fail with no detailed error. Other t…
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They pay to be the default, not the only possible search provider.
They pay per click.
Notably, this hasn't stopped Apple from introducing multiple anti-tracking technologies into Safari which prevents Google from collecting information from Safari users.
If I open up a new tab in safari it tells me that in the last 30 days Safari prevented 109 trackers from profiling me and that 55% of the sites I use implement trackers. It also tells me that the most blocked tracker is googletagmanager.com across 78 websites
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modeless linked to this article earlier today: https://james.darpinian.com/blog/apple-imessage-encryption/ My current understanding of the facts: 1. Google defaults to encrypted backups of messages, as well as e2e encryption of messages. 2. Apple defaults only to e2ee of messages, leaving a massive backdoor. 3. Closing that backdoor is possible for the consumer, by enabling ADP (advanced data protection) on your devi…
Apple's other emphasis is customer experience, and there are more "I forgot my code, help me recover my stuff" people than you can imagine. It would be bad PR for Apple if everybody constantly kept losing their messages because they had no way to get back into their account.
One might consider differently colored chat message bubbles… :)
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You were not going to be able to use those apps anyways, so what does it matter to you? I, and I suspect many, agree with the purpose of attestation. The problems around it are strictly around establishing good ways to teach apps who they should trust, not around attestation itself. By putting your head in the sand, you'll never improve the situation.
> teach apps who they should trust Ah, the apps^Wgovernment (look at that page, most of it is government IDs) should be able to discriminate against me for daring to assert control over my own device. And GrapheneOS is saying: Hey government! We pinky promise to oppress the user just the same, but even more securely and competently than Google/Samsung! > what does it matter to you It shows that the developers maybe d…
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Or IOW, Googles solution affects only messages. Apple’s solution affects your whole digital life so the consequences are a lot more dire.
Google’s solution also ensures that they know all the metadata of your messages, except the content of the message itself.
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Can someone explain what the real difference is to a consumer user between an iPhone and a Pixel or a Samsung device? Across all services, push notifications, and device backups. Both promise security, Apple promises some degree of privacy. Google stores your encryption keys, and so does Apple unless you opt in for ADP. Is it similar to Facebook Messenger (encrypted in transit and at rest but Meta can read it) and Te…
Some of these companies don't make money from you, the end user, but by selling ads and data to more effectively deliver said ads. Differences in capabilities, experience and implementation are all downstream from that. In other words, everyone pays lip service to privacy and security, but it's very difficult to believe that parties like Meta or Google are actually being honest with you. The incentives just aren't th…
They made C memory safe? This is a big thing to gloss over in a single paragraph. Does anyone have extra details on this? > On devices with iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 or later, Apple modified the C compiler toolchain used to build the iBoot bootloader to improve its security. The modified toolchain implements code designed to prevent memory- and type-safety issues that are typically encountered in C programs. For example,…
Yes, that is however a dialect, and one of the goals to Swift Embedded roadmap is to replace it.
I dont think this will end well.