I know it's naïve, but I still feel like Apple is about the only major tech company who seems to have any care for its user base's privacy. They responded extremely quickly to the FaceTime bug...
I know it's naïve, but I still feel like Apple is about the only major tech company who seems to have any care for its user base's privacy. They responded extremely quickly to the FaceTime bug that allowed audio to be heard before the call is answered (and it took a strange convolution of actions on the user's part to recreate that bug). They deactivated group FT almost immediately, rendering the bug harmless until they can patch it, which they'll do probably within a week.
I hate to trust any of these tech giants, but Apple gets a tiny bit of my trust.
I'd generally agree - I'd say in terms of stock hardware and software, iPhones are among, if not the, most private & secure mainstream smartphones out there. I don't know enough about hardware to...
I'd generally agree - I'd say in terms of stock hardware and software, iPhones are among, if not the, most private & secure mainstream smartphones out there.
I don't know enough about hardware to have a good opinion on this, but in terms of software, I think the more locked down OS helps a lot in keeping your data safe. Of course, I'd say that a modded Android phone, with projects like Lineage OS, microG, etc, is even better for user privacy, but the large majority of people don't want to or aren't technically skilled enough to mod their phones.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ just a thought. I'm not a huge fan of Apple, they have some terrible practices for consumers, but it's nice to see at least one large smartphone manufacturer putting any kind of effort into privacy and security.
If you'd like to know more about iOS's hardware security, & more about Apple's privacy stances, you may enjoy these :) iOS 12.1 Security Guide [PDF] macOS Security Overview [PDF] Differential...
If you'd like to know more about iOS's hardware security, & more about Apple's privacy stances, you may enjoy these :)
It's no secret here that I am a huge Apple nerd, but I do believe—pragmatically—iOS devices offer the best data security & user privacy available to consumers today by a wide margin. They really do publish an insane amount of documentation relating to their procedures, systems, & security checks.
It may be possible to self-configure an Android phone to a high level of security with enough input (I'd still be extremely skeptical about hardware chain of trust, especially when dealing with a company like Qualcomm), but five 9's of consumers don't have the requisite knowledge or skills to do this; which makes iPhone the obvious choice.
imo it's mostly to do with image management, which isn't inherently a bad thing. If Apple(tm) or an Apple(tm) device(c) is related to a story, that's a black smudge on the shiny purgatory-white...
imo it's mostly to do with image management, which isn't inherently a bad thing. If Apple(tm) or an Apple(tm) device(c) is related to a story, that's a black smudge on the shiny purgatory-white reputation it's worked so hard to build. After all, if apple weren't so careful, how could it justify its luxury status?
Some relevant tweets from Mike Isaac (NYT tech reporter): https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1090645258675793926 Includes a statement from Apple, as well as fun stuff like:
Includes a statement from Apple, as well as fun stuff like:
Psst: thousands of Facebook employees use unreleased builds of FB apps on iPhones internally for all sorts of functions. correct me if wrong but i believe those are all essentially....bricked now? which would be a huge pain in the ass
they rely on this stuff for things as simple as taking the bus
congrats Facebook Research for invoking the ire of all your colleagues stuck at the shuttle stop this morning
Super anecdotal, but in the past, I've had more than a few instances where I really had to pause and consider where FB had retrieved the info that they had. I no longer really use them other than...
Super anecdotal, but in the past, I've had more than a few instances where I really had to pause and consider where FB had retrieved the info that they had. I no longer really use them other than to forward friends to other messaging services as needed - may be time to fully delete the account (as much as that's possible)
You may not even be able to figure out how Facebook knows certain things about you, because they've historically purchased a lot of data about people from outside data brokers as well. That can...
Disappointing that it's been restored so soon; this appears more as a shot across the bow than any manifestation of punishment. If this had been a small developer abusing this privilege, it...
Disappointing that it's been restored so soon; this appears more as a shot across the bow than any manifestation of punishment. If this had been a small developer abusing this privilege, it wouldn't just have been their certificate that had been wiped.
Yep, I submitted that article here: https://tildes.net/~tech/a1d/apple_blocks_google_from_running_its_internal_ios_apps I expect Google will probably get theirs reinstated fairly quickly too though.
This is in response to this story from yesterday. I'm glad that Apple took action related to it so quickly, interested to see what happens now.
I know it's naïve, but I still feel like Apple is about the only major tech company who seems to have any care for its user base's privacy. They responded extremely quickly to the FaceTime bug that allowed audio to be heard before the call is answered (and it took a strange convolution of actions on the user's part to recreate that bug). They deactivated group FT almost immediately, rendering the bug harmless until they can patch it, which they'll do probably within a week.
I hate to trust any of these tech giants, but Apple gets a tiny bit of my trust.
I'd generally agree - I'd say in terms of stock hardware and software, iPhones are among, if not the, most private & secure mainstream smartphones out there.
I don't know enough about hardware to have a good opinion on this, but in terms of software, I think the more locked down OS helps a lot in keeping your data safe. Of course, I'd say that a modded Android phone, with projects like Lineage OS, microG, etc, is even better for user privacy, but the large majority of people don't want to or aren't technically skilled enough to mod their phones.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ just a thought. I'm not a huge fan of Apple, they have some terrible practices for consumers, but it's nice to see at least one large smartphone manufacturer putting any kind of effort into privacy and security.
If you'd like to know more about iOS's hardware security, & more about Apple's privacy stances, you may enjoy these :)
It's no secret here that I am a huge Apple nerd, but I do believe—pragmatically—iOS devices offer the best data security & user privacy available to consumers today by a wide margin. They really do publish an insane amount of documentation relating to their procedures, systems, & security checks.
It may be possible to self-configure an Android phone to a high level of security with enough input (I'd still be extremely skeptical about hardware chain of trust, especially when dealing with a company like Qualcomm), but five 9's of consumers don't have the requisite knowledge or skills to do this; which makes iPhone the obvious choice.
I'm not who you replied to, but thanks for that. Those are very interesting. Gives me a tiny bit of justification for my trust in Apple.
There was also that phone thing a few years back.
imo it's mostly to do with image management, which isn't inherently a bad thing. If Apple(tm) or an Apple(tm) device(c) is related to a story, that's a black smudge on the shiny purgatory-white reputation it's worked so hard to build. After all, if apple weren't so careful, how could it justify its luxury status?
Some relevant tweets from Mike Isaac (NYT tech reporter): https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1090645258675793926
Includes a statement from Apple, as well as fun stuff like:
Super anecdotal, but in the past, I've had more than a few instances where I really had to pause and consider where FB had retrieved the info that they had. I no longer really use them other than to forward friends to other messaging services as needed - may be time to fully delete the account (as much as that's possible)
You may not even be able to figure out how Facebook knows certain things about you, because they've historically purchased a lot of data about people from outside data brokers as well. That can give them access to information like purchases you make on credit cards, even if it didn't go through Facebook (or even the internet) at all.
Damn that's scary. It seems the only way to be somewhat private these days is to live off the grid.
Mike Isaac says that Facebook's enterprise certificate has now been restored: https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1091103868463636481
Disappointing that it's been restored so soon; this appears more as a shot across the bow than any manifestation of punishment. If this had been a small developer abusing this privilege, it wouldn't just have been their certificate that had been wiped.
Apple has suspended Google's enterprise certificate as well after it was revealed they were doing the same thing.
Yep, I submitted that article here: https://tildes.net/~tech/a1d/apple_blocks_google_from_running_its_internal_ios_apps
I expect Google will probably get theirs reinstated fairly quickly too though.
Already restored: