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  • Folding iPhone will probably cost more than the Mac Studio

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    At least we won't have to worry about the weight. To complement its "extremely high-tech display", and following on from recent Pros' use of titanium frames, the iFold is to use a new light-weight alloy of Unobtainium that actually has negative mass. You heard it here first.
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  • Apple turns off data protection in the UK rather than comply with backdoor mandate

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    lowededwookie said:
    Sweet. No all we need to do is hack every politician’s iCloud account and distribute all their photos and notes and search history so that they then realise they were not intelligent and the UK gets security again.
    To be clear, the data on iCloud is still encrypted, it’s just that Apple now has the keys. So it would need two major breaches of Apple’s security (get to the data, get to the keys) to read it. The issue is that now the authorities (through a case by case legal process) can force Apple to offer up access to the (plain text) data. 

    This is a real mixed bag since it means that some badguys’ data may be able to be used against them. However, AIUI, the more competent users can just “manually” encrypt their data before sending to iCloud so defeating Apple’s access. So perhaps only the ignorant villains suffer along with, in principle, the innocent. 
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  • Apple turns off data protection in the UK rather than comply with backdoor mandate

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    kkqd1337 said:
    Disappointed in Apple here. They should have stood up to the UK Government and just said no. 
    Apple obeys the law in countries where it trades. That’s got to be the correct stance. Trouble is, this particular law is difficult because it does, in some cases, actually support doing good.  

    I’ve never understood why Apple gave in and didn’t implement their (non-intrusive, on-device) check for child pornography files going to iCloud. If they had put that in place, there would have been a much stronger argument against this new law.
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