Comment by seemaze

1 month ago

>the article states that Microsoft only gets 20 a year, and is responsive to 9 or fewer requests. Apple seems to get more and typically is more responsive.

That just makes me think that Windows is generally less secure and there are likely a larger number of instances where the AHJ doesn't have to request help from Microsoft to access the data.

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seemaze

TeMPOraL 1 month ago

Apple has a long history of automatically uploading (and/or "backing up") all documents and media of its customers to iCloud. Microsoft started doing that with OneDrive and OneDrive backups only recently. That + the work Apple put in locking down its phone from users and attackers alike, basically breaks down like this:

                 | Apple         | Microsoft  |
  ---------------+---------------+------------|
  Users with     | approximately | small but  |
  data in cloud  | everyone      | growing    |
  ---------------+---------------+------------|
  Access to      | denied via    | easily     |
  data on device | cryptography  | available  |
                 | by default    | by default |

Spooky23 1 month ago

Definitely possible.

It just seems like a very low number considering the hundreds of millions or billions of Windows devices.