Apple fixes bug: wHy dOeSn’t aPpLe eLaBoRaTe wHaT ThIs bUg wAs aBoUt
Apple elaborates: WhO Is gOnNa bElIeVe aPpLe
Poor Apple, people really should give them a break.
Scrutinizing the big tech giants is valid, but the confirmation bias and tin foils hattery around this topic has been a little silly. In a technology community, it sure would be nice to have conversations about how the technology actually works.
I just dislike that anyone feels the need to come to the defense of a trillion dollar company.
I’m coming to the defense of fact-based conversions.
Apple has more than enough real things to shit on. We don’t need to dumb down the community by promoting misinformation and conspiracies.
Well said. I have no problem calling Apple out on dumb shit but false accusations and sensationalism are just lame as hell.
On the same level as politics we all hate.
That said I also own Apple stock and want them to be absolutely successful.
Lemmy: Apple doesn’t care about your privacy and is secretly keeping your deleted photos because they want your data.
Reality: 1) iCloud photos are E2EE 2) Apple doesn’t have an encryption backdoor, which is why the feds keep pushing for one 3) violating deletion requests is illegal in their core markets
Aaaand… 4) your ass probably already has thousands of photos that you didn’t delete. They don’t need your deleted photos if they want to train models. They have more than enough stuff that you didn’t delete.
As its all proprietary you can’t, and basically nobody can, say anything about a backdoor. It’s pure trust in this corporation.
It’s not proprietary. It’s the AES 256 standard.
iCloud is proprietary by definition because Apple has not publicly released its source code under a free license.
Yes. I’m referring to the encryption standard and I’m saying the photos stored in the cloud service are E2EE.
In a now-deleted post, a Reddit user last week alleged that their photos reappeared on an iPad they sold to a friend, despite them having erased the content of that iPad prior to selling it. Apple tells me that this claim was false.
I had a feeling this was the case. It makes absolute zero sense that a fully erased device on a different Apple ID could have this issue.
It was such an obvious troll. Nobody with the slightest knowledge of how iOS works bought it. Just click bait.
In a now-deleted post, a Reddit user last week alleged that their photos…
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I’d still like a deeper dive into how database corruption led to data restoration
It seems like deleting a photo must just be removing the entry from the SQLite database, and not actually deleting the photo?
Yeah they keep it for AI training.
Such bs.
@Valmond @ozymandias117 oh so we’re still doing the baseless-accusation-without-knowing-how-it-works thing?
They keep deleted photos for a time in iCloud in case someone comes looking for them
Every cloud storage provider does it, every mail server does it, it’s incredibly commonplace
The article specifically states that iCloud wasn’t related to the bug
@ozymandias117 I see now
Then how would they be training AI on it? If they don’t have it? If it’s on device what’s the problem? Deleting a photo doesn’t wipe the bits to 0, it never has
I never made that claim, my man
I just wanted some more information about how the on-device database corruption led to restoring pictures
Those are generally opposites
On spinning disks, it’s significantly easier to restore data after a delete, but it’s not normally as easy on flash storage like they’re using
