I have never liked Apple and lately even less. F… US monopolies

  • dustyData@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Where’s the “Apple is the only tech giant that respects your privacy” crowd? Just because your data isn’t being publicly auctioned doesn’t mean they aren’t harvesting it and infringing on your privacy.

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      13 days ago

      I heard that they were the first test-audience Apple used to test their new product, the IRope. Apple designed it to go around their user’s necks. The other end of the IRope is designed to attach to a proprietary cryptographic dongle to work called the Lynch-Key. Apple says it’s like a lynch-pin because it’s critical to the function the IRope.

      Apple never did hear back from the test-audience. -I think this product will be a real winner!

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      13 days ago

      It’s not data harvesting if it works as claimed. The data is sent encrypted and not decrypted by the remote system performing the analysis.

      From the link:

      Put simply: You take a photo; your Mac or iThing locally outlines what it thinks is a landmark or place of interest in the snap; it homomorphically encrypts a representation of that portion of the image in a way that can be analyzed without being decrypted; it sends the encrypted data to a remote server to do that analysis, so that the landmark can be identified from a big database of places; and it receives the suggested location again in encrypted form that it alone can decipher.

      If it all works as claimed, and there are no side-channels or other leaks, Apple can’t see what’s in your photos, neither the image data nor the looked-up label.

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      13 days ago

      Oh they’re here, just seething about this and their precious green texts or whatever the fuck else false sense of security they’ve been clinging to

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        13 days ago
        • seething
        • precious
        • fuck
        • sense
        • clinging

        we are logical chad and they are emotional wojak amirite