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Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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I’m a fan of the whole Apple ecosystem but I have to say that there’s a pattern here. Apple does a decent job of keeping my data safe from others but a terrible job of keeping it intact. From music libraries with song titles that got switched to long integers to this (and I’m sure more that I’m not remembering atm) they need to do a better job here. Sure security is important but integrity is too.

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Either you didn't read the page you linked or are deliberately lying, the API issue is speculation we know now that it was predominantly spearphishing.

All from the same article:

>"Apple claimed in a press release that access was gained via spear phishing attacks."

> "Apple later reported that the victims' iCloud account information was obtained using "a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions", such as phishing and brute-force attack guessing."

>"Court documents from 2014 indicated that one user created a fake email account called "appleprivacysecurity" to ask celebrities for security information."

>"During the investigation, it was found that Collins phished by sending e-mails to the victims that looked like they had been sent by Apple or Google, warning the victims that their accounts might be compromised and asking for their account details. The victims would enter their passwords, and Collins gained access to their accounts, downloading e-mails and iCloud backups."

>"In August 2016, 28-year-old Edward Majerczyk of Chicago, agreed to plead guilty to a similar phishing scheme, although authorities believe he worked independently and he was not accused of selling the images or posting them online."

>"Garofano's attorney said he had been led into the phishing scheme by criminals."

>"Through a phishing expedition[further explanation needed], he hacked more than 200 people"

All of the other methods of compromise are speculation, what has been unambiguously proven in a court of law over and over again was phishing.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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post #170

I’m a fan of the whole Apple ecosystem but I have to say that there’s a pattern here. Apple does a decent job of keeping my data safe from others but a terrible job of keeping it intact. From music libraries with song titles that got switched to long integers to this (and I’m sure more that I’m not remembering atm) they need to do a better job here. Sure security is important but integrity is too.

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It's a little embarrassing that people are still pushing that particular conspiracy theory a decade after it was debunked.

Not only was "Celebgate" the consequence of a standard phishing attack, but we know from court records that a larger number of Google accounts were breached than Apple accounts.

> A Pennsylvania court has sentenced a man to 18 months in jail for hacking into the accounts of celebrities and stealing nude photos and videos.

Collins tricked his victims - including actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Scarlett Johansson, and Kirsten Dunst - by sending emails appearing be from Google or Apple.

Collins accessed at least 50 iCloud accounts and 72 Gmail accounts.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37796986

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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I hadn’t dug that far in to it, thanks for sharing! I assumed my rather old SD card or the adapter I keep stuffed at the bottom of my bag was the issue as I’ve only seen it on a couple of photos. I’ve used Olympus cameras for over a decade. Well, the same camera to be honest, a PEN E-PM2. This has only appeared in the past couple of years. I haven’t seen it on photos from my Canon EOS 80D yet, but I guess it’s time t…

Well, it might even be a bad sector in RAM or SSD somewhere.

Though, considering the macOS 26, it’s likely the Photos app.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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post #103

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If you ever get the chance, maybe you can be the one that improves that process some day. Even if it's standard among tech giants, you could be the one that makes a new standard! Good luck in your new role, btw.

Unless one's title is going to be "VP" or "SVP", the chance that someone joins BigTech and gets to "improve the process" is usually miniscule. You're being hired as cog #21 on team #54 and there is a large backlog of JIRA (well, in this case, Radar) tickets to grind through. There will be people who tell you what the processes are, and to not deviate from them. And you shouldn't get mad at those people, either--they'…

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Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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This bug has been there for years, probably a decade.

I got similar symptoms as mentioned, I suspected AFS+, but what do I know. It has happened on at least 3 iphones (pros), now when I think about it, I don’t remember any iphone I haven’t have troubles with. Having 5000+ images (non-raw) where 5-10% are corrupt is infuriating, but I just stupidly buy another iphone every year (the most expensive one).

Re-importing images 10-100 times could sometimes extract a few additional images, but the phone just disconnects after a while when running such scripts.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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I remember years ago I lost some random videos on iCloud (synced via the Photos app). The filenames were there but they couldn't be opened anymore and seemed corrupt. Since then I never trusted iCloud anymore and switched to Syncthing (which back then also messed up some of my data if I recall correctly) and then Nextcloud.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Yeah, after you've had this problem once it seems you'd uncheck delete after import before buying a literally entirely new photography system.

My workflow is don't delete after import but format the card in the camera afterwards. I have XXXL cards and it is not such a problem if I forget to format. I had one case where I screwed up a shoot and thought file corruption might have been involved (it wasn't) Even though I had formatted the card with the camera and shot maybe 5 test shots I was able to recover most of the images with Disk Drill https://www.clever…

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Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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I realize it's easy to think or assume this is a bug affecting everyone but for what it's worth, I've had zero issues importing photos from my Sony a6000 and a7iii for the past eight or so years. Tens of thousands of photos at this point.

For the longest time my process while traveling was importing onto my iPad or occasionally my iPhone since I didn't have a personal laptop, just a Mac Mini at home.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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post #175

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They were also active participants in prism... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM What they actually do is a moderate effort to keep app developers from accessing user data. Which is definitely good! Though the reason for this likely more about keeping the customer relationship with apple then actually protecting the privacy of users, but it's a nicely marketable side effect - and that's definitely a good thing fo…

Anybody who was anybody back then was an active participant in PRISM. There are no good guys and bad guys when it comes to that. There are businesses that get to keep doing business by doing what the government tells them to do, there are ones that shut down (Lavabit), and there are ones that don't have enough going on to be on the radar for a project like PRISM.

Also, Qwest Communications.

But at the end of the day, you gotta be able to sleep with yourself and I have no idea what I'd choose if I were a CEO. Everyone lost their jobs. He did wrong outside of PRISM, so it's hard to say. I'm not him and I already don't sleep well at night.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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I’m a fan of the whole Apple ecosystem but I have to say that there’s a pattern here. Apple does a decent job of keeping my data safe from others but a terrible job of keeping it intact. From music libraries with song titles that got switched to long integers to this (and I’m sure more that I’m not remembering atm) they need to do a better job here. Sure security is important but integrity is too.

Well put! But I think there's an interesting exception—APFS seems to be very reliable. It's been quite a few years since the very successful silent auto migration and it’s pretty quiet about it, which is a good thing for filesystems.
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