alt Hacker NewsIt would be trivial for Apple to push out silent targeted OS updates to specific individuals that would log decryption keys and send them to Apple, enabling Apple to decrypt that specific user's data.
Remember, Apple is the same company that cooperated with the NSA to secretly log and feed user data to the NSA starting back in 2012, as revealed by Snowden's heroic disclosure of the PRISM program (which was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge).
Apple's privacy-protecting image is nothing more than marketing.
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> It would be trivial for Apple to push out silent targeted OS updates to specific individuals that would log decryption keys and send them to Apple.
I don't think they even need to do that. They are in control of the encryption process and obviously already process the data to create a persona of the user (after which it is no longer considered "user data")
This is what I’ve always struggled to explain to people, that any software’s security and privacy is only as good as its most recent update.
Apple is actually far worse at protecting your privacy than Google.
On iOS, you cannot install any apps without an Apple Account, and even some preinstalled apps (like Pages, Numbers, Keynote, GarageBand, iMovie) cannot be used before you assign them to an Apple Account.
On Android, you can install any app from any third-party store without having any accounts. There's a store called Aurora Store that even lets you install apps from Google's Play Store without an account as well, so, you can even install all the mainstream apps, all without any accounts.