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Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Post by throwawayffffas »

redrove wrote: post #546
snowe2010 wrote: post #135

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Why would you need it to be end to end encrypted anyway? You’re running it. Set it to only upload photos when you’re on your home network and you’re fine. Or fork it and make a PR and make it e2e encrypted.

You can’t just “fork it and make a PR and make it e2e encrypted”. All the features run serverside, e2ee is fundamentally impossible because of its design, of which you seem to know fuck all. I’m being dismissed by I run a rather large homelab and I still want my photos iCloud like, where end devices decrypt and run ML. Immich is a Google Photos clone where you give it everything and some server does all the magic.

Hm, you can just run it on an encrypted volume. And put an ngnix in front of it to handle https. There you go end to end encrypted.

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Post by tonymet »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #603
tonymet wrote: post #553

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Maybe iPhone is adding those ?

First of all, you don't have to care about this, unless you are wanting something from others and you depend on others and their opinion about your writing significantly. That said, it does make your writing seem very odd. A little bit like the people, who apparently don't know what the shift key does, or how to trigger capital letters on their phones or something, and write only in lowercase letters. Just because yo…

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Post by djoldman »

jbstack wrote: post #263
iamnothere wrote: post #2

This is one of the worst stories I’ve seen yet. It sounds like they were “all in” on Apple with zero backups, which shows some questionable judgment, but still, this sort of thing shouldn’t be possible any more than a bank deciding to take all your money with no recourse. (They can close your account, but they can’t keep your money.) Maybe hosts should be required to mail you a hard drive with your data on it when th…

> this sort of thing shouldn’t be possible any more than a bank deciding to take all your money with no recourse. (They can close your account, but they can’t keep your money.) I once had to help a relative sue a bank who had closed his account after he refused to answer their very intrusive questions (they wanted to know details about distant relatives living in another country). They also refused to return his mone…

I'm curious how big the bank was and what country this is in?

It's my understanding that banks really don't want your money once they've closed an account, they want you to take it back.

Bigger banks, at least in the US, usually do this.

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Post by pjc50 »

codedokode wrote: post #636
tonymet wrote: post #492

I back up regularly using Google Takeout and similar tools, but I don’t think it’s fair to shame this author . Even if you have backups , your recent and essential content and credentials will be locked out . 1% of your content is the most important We all depend heavily on cloud storage and sso . Everything works fine until you are locked out . And using them isn’t fully voluntary. They are necessary for collaborati…

> Every normal person has content in Google , iCloud , OneDrive , Dropbox and maybe more. That’s 4+ single points of failure It only means that the content is not valuable for them. I know people who created Google Account only because the phone required them to and they do not even remember the password or username, and do not use Gmail (why use email when there is Telegram). If they lose the phone, they would just…

Plenty of huge businesses keep all their critical data in the cloud. If they were banned from Microsoft 365 they would instantly go out of business.

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Post by orthoxerox »

crtasm wrote: post #431
viraptor wrote: post #260

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> If enough of these horror stories are publicized, people will learn to never buy/redeem Apple gift cards You'd think so. Yet, the stories of PayPal locking up payouts to surprised people keep coming every year - and people still use them.

I thought I'd buy Cory Doctrow's Enshittification ebook direct from his website. Surprised to be redirected to Paypal with no other option.

I remember when Cory would let you download any of his books for free and even said you were allowed to email him and call him a sucker for doing this.

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Post by Fogest »

leptons wrote: post #675
g947o wrote: post #567

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Not saying this in a derogatory way, but that pretty much means you are not a "normal" user but someone who is tech savvy enough to not rely on someone else's cloud.

And yet all it takes is buying a piece of hardware and installing an app, something that plenty of "normal" people do every day.

"all it takes" is a very naive simplification of how to accomplish this solution and is much more complicated for a non tech savvy person than just hitting "yes" on a backup option their phone prompts them for.

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Post by nullfield »

vladms wrote: post #493
crossroadsguy wrote: post #274

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Not only local copies but also at least own and use one device where you have your important data that is not on the same OS ecosystem as the other device(s) - also helps with things like 2FA, password manager, etc., if shit has hit the ceiling fan on the other device. In addition, I always suggest people to: - Not use big tech's cloud services - ever - But if you must, do not use many cloud services from just one pr…

The list is a bit overkill for the normal person. I would suggest just: - Have a local backup (simple giving the storage prices) - Pay for one email provider (less chance to ignore you) - For important services (bank, etc.) always register also a telephone number / second email if possible (there is a low chance that both primary and secondary thing will be blocked at the same time)

I’ll extend this, seriously, to the 3-2-1 model. It’s all fun and games, rhetorically, until someplace burns down.

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Post by avazhi »

wannadingo wrote: post #710
avazhi wrote: post #419

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So if they aren’t reasonable what’s the point of typing them out in a list exhorting others to implement them?

Because showing that the mitigation is unreasonable highlights how unreasonable the problem is.

The original commenter said he always suggests people do these things.

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Post by tonymet »

bambax wrote: post #665
tonymet wrote: post #492

I back up regularly using Google Takeout and similar tools, but I don’t think it’s fair to shame this author . Even if you have backups , your recent and essential content and credentials will be locked out . 1% of your content is the most important We all depend heavily on cloud storage and sso . Everything works fine until you are locked out . And using them isn’t fully voluntary. They are necessary for collaborati…

I have content on Google and Dropbox but I have live backups. It would be very annoying to be locked out of Google, but I would not lose any data. Anyone can have a NAS, you don't need a while basement or to live inside of one (??!?) Yes, those companies should absolutely be forbidden to behave like this, and punished heavily when they do. But until it happens (which doesn't look like it will), your data is your resp…

What tools are you performing live backups with ? I can think of rclone running , but gdrive/icloud doesn’t send change lists

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Post by colechristensen »

duxup wrote: post #690
colechristensen wrote: post #625

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And, importantly, go through with the lawsuit. Figure out how to quantify damages to yourself by being deprived of access to your account so even if they restore access you can continue the suit.

>go through with the lawsuit That's a big ask.

Well... who else is going to defend victims if they're not going to defend themselves? Particularly when the person is presumably rather well resourced.

Justice is dead when nearly everybody just makes backroom deals with no admissions of guilt and nondisclosure of terms if they even defend themselves at all.

A person who is capable of defending themselves owes it to those who aren't as able; if even the most resourced people won't defend themselves, what chance to the rest of us have?

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