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I don't really like Apple nor do I use their products, but this is good work in raising awareness of corporate privacy violations

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[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Apple cult armies are in denial of Apple devices being privacy nightmares due to being closed source blackboxes. These are good for no more than protecting your data from your nosy girlfriend or the neighbour computer whiz kid.

There is plenty of evidence that goes to prove why Apple devices are nightmares for privacy. This is a comprehensive list of links, images and articles for read:

https://gist.github.com/iosecure/357e724811fe04167332ef54e736670d

https://i.imgur.com/n8Bk0bA.jpg

Siri still recording conversations 9 months later despite Apple's promise to not do it: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/20/apple_siri_transcriptions/

Apple Mail vulnerability, and Apple's denial of acceptance of the flaw: https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/27/iphone-mail-vulnerabilities-2/

Apple sells certificates to third-party developers that allow them to track users: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/apples-hypocritical-defense-data-privacy/581680/

Apple themselves were one of the main partners buying data from Facebook: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/03/technology/facebook-device-partners-users-friends-data.html

The San Ferdandino shooter thing was completely fraudulent: https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/internet-privacy/one-fbis-major-claims-iphone-case-fraudulent

Louis Rossmann dismantles Apple's PR stunt "repair program": https://invidio.us/watch?v=rwgpTDluufY

BIG SUR

Bypassing firewalls/VPNs was totally intended for MacOS and not a bug or flaw: https://i.imgur.com/M1ZwlDC.png

CDNUUIDs sent with the OCSP server checks are sent in PLAINTEXT on the internet to Apple servers: https://i.imgur.com/Q2IhYqM.png

Apple apps apparently have ads served, needing to be blocked via LittleSnitch, since firewalls are automatically bypassed: https://twitter.com/_p9k_/status/1324415251308269568

Apple has apparently claimed to fix this spying and plaintext lack of security over the next year (screenshot): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491

[–] Hildegarde@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

wow! I have some reading to do! Thanks for all of these links o7

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

o7 indeed

You should check out my sublemmy, !privatelife@lemmy.ml which is also this sublemmy's partner in sidebar (bottom of webpage on mobile).