alt Hacker NewsHave a set of clearly-defined requirements that doesn't randomly reject valid candidates? Nobody wants another opaque system like the App Store review process.
By the sound of it, Apple's offered audit doesn't include insight into the most dangerous parts of a system like this. This could easily lead to a situation where real security experts are denied access to promote influencer-adjacent Yes Men who rubberstamp the hashes matching without any question.
Hence my concern for "SSL added and removed here" - none of Google's famously backdoored infrastructure will be audited. For privacy purposes, Apple's promise is woefully incomplete.
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At this point the EU doesn’t trust Apple’s fair rules. Which is very much earned.
So if they did that here, I doubt the EU would accept it. And even if they did as soon as a competitor of any side/credibility cried foul I’m sure the EU would make life very hard for Apple to prove they’re not being unfair in even the tiniest way.
That's a very bad faith reading on what Apple said.
How I understood it that they want _actual_ security researchers, not some random dude who once installed Kali Linux and ran nmap.
It's state of the art private compute according to actual experts and everyone will be wasting their time if the "researchers" need to be coached through the process and explained the basics of the system's operation.