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>there's no good and easy option to backup your phone other than iCloud. Turn off iCloud and do local encrypted backups to your PC or Mac. This works over your wifi network (if you prefer wireless charging at home) or via a cable connection.
Not a solution for Linux users. There are ways to sync to Linux but I’ve had plenty of issues with it.
>there's no good and easy option to backup your phone other than iCloud. Turn off iCloud and do local encrypted backups to your PC or Mac. This works over your wifi network (if you prefer wireless charging at home) or via a cable connection.
Pretty much this. It's a bit of a PITA, but an easy work around. Of course then you have a local backup on a hard drive which is itself subject to seizure and I believe even encrypted backups can be cracked.
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Not a solution for Linux users. There are ways to sync to Linux but I’ve had plenty of issues with it.
Linux offers the ability to run virtual machines, does it not?
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>While iPhone itself is pretty secure as a device phone I simply don't understand why people would blindly believe marketing material from a for-profit corporation. It's a device running closed source software. There is no way to prove this claim. If anything, Apple has been caught in the past sending very very personal sensitive information [1]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/apple-con...
Why the distinction on for-profit? There are plenty of non-profits you shouldn’t trust. Surely their tax status is orthogonal to their trustability.
>there's no good and easy option to backup your phone other than iCloud. Turn off iCloud and do local encrypted backups to your PC or Mac. This works over your wifi network (if you prefer wireless charging at home) or via a cable connection.
It’s not only way more friction than iCloud, but you’d be surprised how many people nowadays don’t even own a PC or Mac. In my wife’s family 60% of people only have phones, tablets and smart TVs. They use laptops/desktops only at work.
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Linux offers the ability to run virtual machines, does it not?
As in run an OSX vm so you can run a backup? You're only allowed to virtualize OSX on Apple hardware.
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Pretty much this. It's a bit of a PITA, but an easy work around. Of course then you have a local backup on a hard drive which is itself subject to seizure and I believe even encrypted backups can be cracked.
The other thing that’s a bit of a problem as I discovered is it doesn’t seem as if there’s any documented way (and I’m wary of undocumented workarounds) to have this backup anywhere but your boot drive. Especially with several OS X devices this can be a bit of a problem if you have an older undersized SSD. I was getting critically low on space and it turned out a huge amount was these backups.
I suppose I could mount a network drive / nfs share at the location iTunes believes is local ...
Wonder if this will help to kill a meme, about how much Apple cares about users and what great values they have, how they're going to stand for the user, fight with governments, etc. While iPhone itself is pretty secure as a device phone (and Apple makes sure to remind you about that in each ad, public speaking, attacks on competitors, etc), as an ecosystem it's not secure. And it's like that on purpose - there's no…
I really want the iOS Time Capsule Option. Even if it is expensive.
Wonder if this will help to kill a meme, about how much Apple cares about users and what great values they have, how they're going to stand for the user, fight with governments, etc. While iPhone itself is pretty secure as a device phone (and Apple makes sure to remind you about that in each ad, public speaking, attacks on competitors, etc), as an ecosystem it's not secure. And it's like that on purpose - there's no…
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Long-term, there may eventually come a solution to this problem in the form of [binary transparency]( https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency ). However, we're obviously a long way away from that being the norm, and there's still the problem of supply-chain attacks on hardware to consider.
I doubt the hardware supply chain can ever be secured. Even if you were to open-source every single part of manufacturing, there is no reliable way to ensure that the chip you, as a customer, have obtained, hasn't been backdoored. You'd have to delid it and put it under an X-Ray if that even resolves the tiny featuresin modern CPUs.