Comment by isodev
1 month ago
> does the concern still apply?
Yes it does and the blogpost specifically explains why.
In short, both iOS and macOS are full of bugs, often with the potential of exposing sensitive information.
Also, it’s on by default - nobody in their sane mind would have bits of their photos uploaded somewhere, regardless of “we promise we won’t look”.
Finally, Photos in iOS 18 is such a bad experience that it seems the breach of privacy was fundamentally unjustified as no meaningful improvement was introduced at all.
>regardless of “we promise we won’t look”.
AIUI, even if Apple's servers tried to look, they cannot, because of the encryption.
Encryption does not automatically mean secure. Encryptions can and will be broken. Any flaw in their implementation (which nobody can verify) would render encryption useless…
I wonder where you'd draw the line.
Do you also distrust TLS for example, and therefore refuse to use the internet? What about AES/Chacha for full-disk encryption?
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Sure, but it's more than a promise that they won't look. Apple currently believes it's impossible to look.
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