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2021 iPad review: The best iPad for nearly everyone
Best of all, it still has a Home Button! Which for many people, makes the iPad so much easier to use.
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Apple backs down on CSAM features, postpones launch
mr. h said:
The irony of this post is sky-high.henrybay said:Great news! Apple listened. Their CSAM concept made a mockery of Apple’s privacy ethos. Even though it was well intentioned, it would have turned our iPhones into digital Stasi officers monitoring our every move.Apple should turn their attention to screening cloud services where much of this offensive material is apparently stored and shared. But they should leave our iPhones alone. Our phones should be sacrosanct paragons of privacy.
Their CSAM concept was actually an extremely clever way of enabling all of your photos to be uploaded to iCloud fully encrypted (without giving Apple the keys), such that neither Apple nor anyone else (should they hack into iCloud, or be law-enforcement with a warrant) would have been able to inspect the photos in iCloud, with the exception of any individual photos that matched a CSAM hash, with the proviso that even then, there would have to be at least 30 photos that matched known CSAM material, before even that was possible.
But now, since they have backed down, all of your photos will continue to be uploaded to iCloud unencrypted, where Apple, law enforcement, and any hackers will be able to inspect all of your photos.
Which one of these two scenarios offers the most privacy?Which one of these two scenarios offers the most privacy?
That’s a no brainer. I choose scenario 2 because I don’t care who sees my photos on iCloud but I care deeply about who can access the content of my iPhone.
I consider my iPhone an extension of my private domain and is therefore sacrosanct. I don’t consider cloud services in the same way and assume they are open to external scrutiny.
It is also naive to believe that Apple’s CSAM approach won’t be exploited by the technical wizards who created spyware programs like Pegasus. They could turn this program against us and sell their service to repressive regimes. Let’s not kid ourselves — this is a back door into our phones. No amount of reassuring techno mumbo or nuanced obfuscation can disguise this fact.
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Apple backs down on CSAM features, postpones launch
Great news! Apple listened. Their CSAM concept made a mockery of Apple’s privacy ethos. Even though it was well intentioned, it would have turned our iPhones into digital Stasi officers monitoring our every move.Apple should turn their attention to screening cloud services where much of this offensive material is apparently stored and shared. But they should leave our iPhones alone. Our phones should be sacrosanct paragons of privacy.
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Former Apple CDO Jony Ive helped design the 24-inch iMac
Just keep Jony away from designing any more keyboards please. We’ve had enough of his lifeless, super shallow keyboards (ie butterfly) that numb the fingers.
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Apple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro reveals its future direction
Quote: ‘To blogger critics who have never done anything apart from writing their opinions on a subject, the solutions are simplistic: stop making light and thin machines, go back to using a keyboard from 2015, and add more RAM! Also, be faster with less heat and don't spin those fans up!’
It turns out that the solutions WERE quite simplistic - stop making such a thin and light machine, go back to using a scissor keyboard with a decent amount of travel, and add more power while addressing the heat issues.’
It was Apple who complicated things by pursuing its silly ‘thin at all costs’ mantra which undermined a generation of Macbooks. Now, with the new MacBook Pro, they are back on track
