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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Using a vast array of technology including lasers are finely tuned sensors, they are trying to find gaps in their security and patch them up before they even arrive in the world.

The actual chip doing the encryption can show signs of what it is doing: while processors might seem like abstract electronics, they throw out all sorts of heats and signals that could be useful to an attacker.

But they are up against highly compensated hackers: in recent years, there has grown up to be an advanced set of companies offering cyber weapons to the highest bidder, primarily for use against people working to better the world: human rights activists, journalists, diplomats.

But recent years have also seen it locked in an escalating battle: Lockdown Mode might have been a breakthrough of which it is proud, but it was only needed because of an unfortunate campaign to break into people’s phones.

It is not the kind of difficulty that comes even with other security work; those stealing passwords or scamming people out of money don’t have lobbyists and government power.

The kind of highly targeted, advanced attacks that Lockdown Mode and other features guard against however are costly and complicated, meaning they will often be done by governments that could cause difficulties for Apple and other technology companies.


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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Downvote me if you must but what if Apple accidentally became the Privacy community's greatest ally? I know it can't happen bc they'll always keep a back door for their data mining

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A back door is not what apple uses to collect data, that’s very very different from sending analytics.

Apple already outperforms google by 3x in terms of privacy points collected.

Wanna talk about backdoors? Check out the exploit list for android phones compared to iPhones. Nuff said.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does a multimillion dollar company beat a trillion dollar company ath their own security game? Also stop suing Corellium is a good start, don't sue when you get caught lying, do better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Idk but there’s plenty of other android os that are more secure than what google puts out. And they make substantially less.

Google hasn’t been the same since the switch regarding “evil” and “ethics”.

Anyone can see that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Hell, if they legitimately stopped their data collection, that would be enough to tip me into iOS until a truly good linux phone in my price range happens.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m curious, do you have a source for them having a backdoor and mining data?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pure speculation based on things I saw in the news over the years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wow OK, well that doesn’t have any value then. It’s best not to spread rumours since eich behaviour it can easily spread to other, more important, issues in society.