Comment by Gabriel54
1 month ago
As someone with a background in mathematics I appreciate your point about cryptography. That said, there is no guarantee that any particular implementation of a secure theoretical algorithm is actually secure.
1 month ago
As someone with a background in mathematics I appreciate your point about cryptography. That said, there is no guarantee that any particular implementation of a secure theoretical algorithm is actually secure.
There is also no guarantee that Apple isn't lying about everything.
They could just have the OS batch uploads until a later point e.g. when the phone checks for updates.
The point is that this is all about risk mitigation not elimination.
> There is also no guarantee that Apple isn't lying about everything.
And at that point all the opt-in dialogs in the world don't matter and you should not be running iOS but building some custom Android ROM from scratch.
> There is also no guarantee that Apple isn't lying about everything.
Other than their entire reputation
A reputation has to be earned again and again.
Maybe your threat model can tolerate an "oopsie woopsie". Politically exposed persons probably cannot.
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I’m stealing your information.
Hey! That’s wrong.
But I promise I won’t do anything wrong with it.
Well ok then.
This is still a very dishonest representation of what’s actually happening.