<story><title>Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy</title><url>http://www.apple.com/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>quaunaut</author><text>Okay, a few things I&amp;#x27;m just plainly getting pissed off about every time I see these threads.&lt;p&gt;* Bitching about the words &amp;quot;direct access&amp;quot;: Guess what, these are words, they have a meaning. They&amp;#x27;re saying that the government can&amp;#x27;t view the database directly, they can&amp;#x27;t determine what they get to see, and they don&amp;#x27;t get to pull it up whenever the fuck they feel like it. And guess what? That means something. I swear, everyone obsessing over the words &amp;quot;direct access&amp;quot; goes on record as one of the most idiotic things a lot of really smart people get obsessed about.&lt;p&gt;* Most of these companies are effectively saying they&amp;#x27;re agreeing to subpoenas, with the one difference being that NSA warrants can&amp;#x27;t be reported by the companies involved. This is still infinitely more tame than the previous claims that the Guardian has been walking back this last week(let alone the entirely ridiculous argument Snowden put out there saying they can &amp;#x27;watch your thoughts form as you type&amp;#x27;, which gets even more funny when you consider the only service listed that transmits your typed data is GMail).&lt;p&gt;* There is a lot to be concerned about here- no mistake about it. But right now, there&amp;#x27;s a lot more holes in Snowden &amp;amp; Co&amp;#x27;s story than the opposite. It&amp;#x27;s still troubling, the attitude taken by some of those at the highest echelons of government, on the whole subject- but the accusers have a lot of explaining to do, if you&amp;#x27;ve been paying attention.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy</title><url>http://www.apple.com/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>evadne</author><text>&amp;gt; For example, conversations which take place over iMessage and FaceTime are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can see or read them. Apple cannot decrypt that data.&lt;p&gt;I don’t know, then, why when I do an iCloud restore on a brand new device, all existing messages are recovered. Is this a way to recover all past messages that’s not really addressed, if I can still recover all historical messages after replacing all devices connected to an iCloud account at once?&lt;p&gt;Cursory links:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;security.blogoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;qotw-34-imessage-what-security-features-are-present&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;security.blogoverflow.com&amp;#x2F;2012&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;qotw-34-imessage-wh...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;meeee&amp;#x2F;pushproxy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;meeee&amp;#x2F;pushproxy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imfreedom.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;IMessage&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imfreedom.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;IMessage&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>