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kqp • today at 9:02 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Others have already pointed out that your assumption of Apple TV not spying on you is wrong, I’d like to make a meta-comment on that.

Apple regards privacy as a feature, and I mean that precisely: some places they implement it, other places they decide it’s not worth it, and they only ever tell you about the former. A good example is iMessage: everybody in tech knows it’s E2EE, many fewer realize that the other three copies of your iMessage data on Apple’s servers are just, uh, not encrypted.

You can’t have the same intuition for Apple and privacy that you would for a group like Signal. You need to instead ask yourself whether you fully understand what you need, then whether Apple has guaranteed precisely and fully that, without weasel words.


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Terretta • today at 9:21 PM

> many fewer realize that the other three copies of your iMessage data on Apple’s servers are just, uh, not encrypted

With Advanced Data Security enabled?

Of course, then there's the persons you're talking to. I figure they are one of your "other three", another is the iCloud copy (deduped from backups) ostensibly resolved by advanced data security, what's the third?

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