Apple Platform Security

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by olliej • 7 years ago

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One of the things Apple is known for is taking technology and delivering an integrated solution that is super easy for the non-technical user to use. Apple has done the same with security. If you are a normal user that is not being actively targeted by a nation state, just buying and using a Mac or an iPhone with the default options results in a pretty secure by default scenario.

egdod• 7 years ago

Unless you use Siri, in which case random contractors might listen to anything you intentionally or unintentionally say to Siri.

lostgame3• 7 years ago

Source on this?

You couldn’t pay me to use a voice assistant, much less would I ever have a voice assistant in my home (Dear God, it scares me that people do this) - but AFAIK Siri doesn’t do this like Google does.

emrehan• 7 years ago

I used to appreciate the security features of Apple products until it began to interfere with my freedom.

I’m telling this after wasting tens of hours to install a linux, any linux to my iMac Pro without success.

tedunangst• 7 years ago

After, I don't know, maybe one ten of hours, wouldn't it make sense to check online and see what the situation with the T2 chip is?

lostgame3• 7 years ago

Did you not think to, y’know, Google it?

It’s Secure Boot and the T2 that’s the issue, which can evidently be disabled:

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/11/appl...

groobongithub2• 7 years ago

When a device goes missing and can’t connect to Wi-Fi or cellular—for example, a MacBook left on a park bench—it begins periodically broadcasting the derived public key Pi for a limited period of time in a Bluetooth payload. By using P-224, the public key representation can fit into a single Bluetooth payload.

This is clever, and the reason Apple chose P-224 specifically.

Gys• 7 years ago

Yes I buy a lot of Apple stuff. Yes I think its more safe. But honestly, I think they only emphasize safety and security to differentiate from Facebook, Google and Microsoft. In the end this is only about marketing. To pump prices and margin. I still feel (ab)used, only in a different way.

woah• 7 years ago

Because they are making something you want?

hnaccount141• 7 years ago

Of course. But I'd must rather a company do the right thing for the wrong reasons than just do the wrong thing.

Besides, corporate "values" are flimsy and change at the drop of a hat. Profit is the only incentive that remains constant. I find it much easier to trust a company who does a good thing because it benefits their bottom line than one who does something just because the current leadership decides to do it out of the goodness of their heart.

Despegar• 7 years ago

PDF version: https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/app...

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