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Honest question: how? It seems to me that when I sign in to Apple ID, it automatically signs me in to iCloud. I've found this quite annoying.
> when I sign in to Apple ID, it automatically signs me in to iCloud Don't do that. You can sign in within the App Store app, but don't sign in anywhere else.
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> Perhaps disabling System Integrity Protection disables the malware scan too? I haven't checked this, but it's not really viable for me as a Mac software developer, because I need to test the same runtime environment as my users, otherwise I could write code that works for me but not for my users. I'd be a bit careful here by the way. Disabling SIP results in other weird differences too, that may cause programs to r…
Wait, why? Seems like a bad thing to do in CI?
I probably could have done something fancy where the VMs were left running a day or two before being frozen and deployed, but disabling SIP was the much simpler solution to the problem.
Nobody mentioned this so far, here goes: The latest 'national security' bill signed into law this April grants the US govt access to any and all commercial hardware. This as I understand it, am I wrong? Doesnt this imply that every cloud service should be assumed insecure?
For people who like the Apple Mac, running an open-source OS on it is usually possible, right?
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Apple claims they cannot decrypt. What will you do if that claim turns out false? That is what the person you are talking with means, and it is very clear throughout the conversation.
Great, so what does he mean by "how would you explain the source that you linked to?", since no part of that conflicts with what I've said or anything else? (I really appreciate the parsing help!)
And we have plenty of historical examples, including recent ones, that big companies are simply lying through their teeth almost every time they open their mouths. Companies that rely heavily upon marketing are lying more so than others.
"Macs don't get viruses" claim made while several Mac viruses existed at the time. It's been lies for decades.
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This is not longer the case. But another way around is the way VMWare Fusion let you set up networking in Bridged mode. Any traffic from the VM went through without a peep from Little Snitch running on the host. No reason malware couldn't be designed in the same way.
VMware Fusion isn't sandboxed and installs daemons running as root (which requires Gatekeeper approval or bypass to run, followed by an admin password to install the daemons). AFAIK, XProtect is the only remaining line of defense against malware installed in this way.
Gah, I didn’t realize that iCloud Keychain was enabled automatically on ios17. I checked and it’s been on for months. Why would they do this? I remember when Microsoft uploaded people’s personal wifi creds in Windows 10. It’s all highly suspect. Stop it. This over sharing by default will doom us all.
> Why would they do this? Because automatically sharing credentials between devices by default is what most people want, especially younger customers for whom this has always been the normal state of affairs.