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  • On-device Apple Intelligence training seems to be based on controversial technology

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    The CSAM detection system preserved user privacy, data encryption, and more

    I suppose this isn’t technically wrong. The data will be encrypted, but when a threshold was met, it would allow the data to be decrypted and reviewed and potentially then sent to authorities.  I had post several comments on this topic.

    Apples CSAM detection is not end to end encrypted, which requires asymmetric keys to ensure that the Sender, and then the Receiver are the only ones privy to the contents.  Introduce any other mechanism to enable review by a Man In The Middle, is essentially a backdoor into the algorithm.

    but as some may say, the scanning was on device, what’s the issue with that?  On device scanning is a very useful tool; it makes finding things easier on your device.  What I do have issue with is the reporting part.  It’s a form surveillance. Of what’s on your device.  Something that should be private.

    Yes, it only scanned when a photo was sent via iCloud and reported when a threshold was met, but that’s written in software, and software can change. So when that reporting gets triggered can change.  Let’s say the government did like the results, and required Apple to be more strict to help find more positive matches?

    The only correct way to think of iCloud with CSAM on device scanning was to view your photos as being in a semi public (eg public) space.

    On device should be private, communication through Apple should be considered semi public (the data would still be encrypted in transit to Apple, but Apple would technically have full access), unless otherwise specified by Apple as being end to end encrypted and verified by a third party (true E2E, not wish it were E2E).

    gatorguyrandominternetpersonwatto_cobra

  • If you have an iPhone with AT&T, there's a good chance your info has been stolen

    exceptionhandlerexceptionhandler
    A company I used to work for stores the ssn in the free and clear in their database.  I also proved to them they had several SQL injection attack vectors.  Did they want to fix these things? Nope. Probably a combination of things: they didn’t care, moving too fast for their own good, fixing it wasn’t as sexy as a new feature, too cheap to pay someone to fix it, or all of the above. All of this and definitely more probably still they’re waiting to be exploited to this day.

    This is why we can’t have nice, aka things that work to protect us.

    Needless to say, but I no longer work there.
    ronnwatto_cobraols

  • If you're using a Magic Keyboard, you've opened up an attack vector

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    chasm said:
    Yes, Bluetooth is flawed and should be fixed.

    BUT

    It’s worth pointing out that this alleged “attack” can only work if the attacker is within 30 feet of you — so at home this is probably a complete non-issue, and even in public you’d probably only be a real risk if you were attended a black-hat hacker convention, or a Starbucks in Silicon Valley.

    I concur with AppleZulu about the risk factor on this. Good to be aware of the vulnerability, very VERY low odds of it being a practical thread in the real world.
    Not necessarily.  One could conceive of a device such as a raspberry pi running off solar/battery that has both a Bluetooth and cellular radio that could be planted somewhere close to the house.  But regardless, this would be an attack that targets a specific person, not the general public, meaning, it wouldn’t be chance or happenstance. I’d think journalists, state officials, or other high value targets would have something to worry about.
    williamlondon

  • Tim Cook confirms that Apple has been working on generative AI for years

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    My primary problem with Siri is it doesn't remember context. So if I ask about where someone lives or the address of a company and it gives me the answer, I can't request, "Take me there" because it doesn't know what "there" means. I'm afraid I've gotten spoiled by GPTchat engines with which I can make backward references.
    I thought I remembered Siri was supposed to remember context, and had used that feature on occasion.  I think over time Siri has changed or at least I don’t use the scripted version in the 2011 keynote when Siri was introduced:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=agzItTz35QQ

    I remembered Siri being a lot better then than now, but still prefer it over others, or not having one at all.
    forgot usernamejas99byronlwatto_cobra

  • Samsung leaks that Apple is still working on an all-screen foldable MacBook Pro

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    9secondkox2 said:
    exceptionhandler said:
    radarthekat said:
    geekmee said:
    And what problem does the foldable screen solve again?

    Keyboard mapping for any language.  Apple wouldn't have to make unique hardware keyboards for different markets.
    Easy, just make each individual key a screen.  Still have a physical key that can actuate, and have the dynamic nature of a display to change languages, show functions/hot keys depending on the focused program, etc. There have already been keyboards like this for over a decade.
    Like the Optimus keyboard? I don’t think that would be practical or cost effective. It would be an aesthetic nightmare as well. Apple is about simplifying the complex, not complicating the simple. 

    Besides. If Apple couldn’t even get the butterfly keyboard right…

    kidding! Just kidding. 

    Sheesh. Calm down people. 
    Lol no kidding needed.  Disliked that keyboard very much.  Not enough key travel, not to mention the key failures and repair cost.  I’ve gone mechanical and it’s been hard to go back to anything else.  As far as laptop keyboards go, their current design isn’t bad, but going to a completely flat, single pane of glass (even with haptic feedback) would be a step back for a laptop.

    I had not considered repair costs of a keyboard with screens on each key.  I bet that would be way more than the price to repair the butterfly keyboard.
    williamlondonradarthekat