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China Decides iPhones Pose a National Security Risk (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Employees at some Chinese ministries must stop using iPhones before the end of September.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Apple does have some advantages, in that you can enable encryption of your data so that Apple doesn't have anything to turn over.

But yeah, I still wouldn't recommend them because they could disable that tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if they disabled E2E, the data would still be encrypted, and they wouldn't have the key to force it to decrypt. Also, removing that feature would royally piss off their customers that they sold "security" to for a decade+.

Personally, I use their cloud storage. IMHO, the risk is low and the convenience is worth it for me, as someone in the US.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even if they disabled E2E, the data would still be encrypted, and they wouldn't have the key to force it to decrypt.

Since it's all closed-source, we don't really know that. Apple also controls the OS of your device so they could easily push an update that sends your key to their server.

Apple has many privacy issues, but this ain't one of them, in my opinion.