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  • I wonder if the context of ‘tech person’ vs average person is what they meant?

    A genx tech person in their field is going to be on avg further along than millenial in the same field - because they’ve literally been doing it longer, more experience, learnt more, exposed to more fundamentals.

    imo the distinction is the average (non-tech) genx probably will have less tech exposure than avg millenial, millenials were coming up during the shift of the average person thinking “computers are for geeks” to “tech is cool”.

    disclaimer: generation names are kind of arbitrary divide and conquer bs anyway.



  • TLDR edit: I’m supporting the above comment - ie. i do not support apple’s actions in this case.


    It’s definitely good for people to learn a bit about homomorphic computing, and let’s give some credit to apple for investing in this area of technology.

    That said:

    1. Encryption in the majority of cases doesn’t actually buy absolute privacy or security, it buys time - see NIST’s criteria of ≥30 years for AES. It will almost certainly be crackable <oneday> either by weakening or other advances… How many people are truly able to give genuine informed consent in that context?

    2. Encrypting something doesn’t always work out as planned, see example:

    “DON’T WORRY BRO, ITS TOTALLY SAFE, IT’S ENCRYPTED!!”

    Source

    Yes Apple is surely capable enough to avoid simple, documented, mistakes such as above, but it’s also quite likely some mistake will be made. And we note, apple are also extremely likely capable of engineering leaks and concealing it or making it appear accidental (or even if truly accidental, leveraging it later on).

    Whether they’d take the risk, whether their (un)official internal policy would support or reject that is ofc for the realm of speculation.

    That they’d have the technical capability to do so isn’t at all unlikely. Same goes for a capable entity with access to apple infrastructure.

    1. The fact they’ve chosen to act questionably regarding user’s ability to meaningfully consent, or even consent at all(!), suggests there may be some issues with assuming good faith on their part.




  • that’s great buddy. but while recapping basic IT facts might make you feel smart on facebook. this is lemmy where the average user 1 is perfectly familiar the principles. here it just telegraphs to us that you didn’t read the fucking article (which would’ve taken less time than spamming the thread & insulting users btw).

    1 before the influx of reddit api refugees - on that topic do you ever reflect on how corporate bootlicking might relate to the over-corporatisation of reddit which led to users fleeing? only to come here and do unpaid simping for the corporations, slowly ruining this place too?