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Posted on 09/19/2014 11:01:39 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Load up iOS 8 and you might not notice the difference straight away, but there are plenty of little tweaks and changes behind the scenes. Here are 25 different things you can do on your device that you couldn't do yesterday.
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Nope, don’t recall a Bait app on iOS7.
iOS 8
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Since it's the install package itself that gobbles up so much space, the easiest way to get around the issues is to plug your phone or tablet into your computer and update straight from iTunes. That way, your phone won't get stuck with having to bear the update's weight and you should have more than enough room for the measly 1.1 GB of iOS 8 itself. Simple!
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Unprecedented data mining?
Uh, no. You're thinking of another company: Google. Not Apple.
Read this statement from CEO Tim Cook of Apple, made this last week:
A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your privacy.At Apple, your trust means everything to us. That’s why we respect your privacy and protect it with strong encryption, plus strict policies that govern how all data is handled.
Security and privacy are fundamental to the design of all our hardware, software, and services, including iCloud and new services like Apple Pay. And we continue to make improvements. Two-step verification, which we encourage all our customers to use, in addition to protecting your Apple ID account information, now also protects all of the data you store and keep up to date with iCloud.
We believe in telling you up front exactly what’s going to happen to your personal information and asking for your permission before you share it with us. And if you change your mind later, we make it easy to stop sharing with us. Every Apple product is designed around those principles. When we do ask to use your data, it’s to provide you with a better user experience.
We’re publishing this website to explain how we handle your personal information, what we do and don’t collect, and why. We’re going to make sure you get updates here about privacy at Apple at least once a year and whenever there are significant changes to our policies.
A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product. But at Apple, we believe a great customer experience shouldn’t come at the expense of your privacy.
Our business model is very straightforward: We sell great products. We don’t build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers. We don’t “monetize” the information you store on your iPhone or in iCloud. And we don’t read your email or your messages to get information to market to you. Our software and services are designed to make our devices better. Plain and simple.
One very small part of our business does serve advertisers, and that’s iAd. We built an advertising network because some app developers depend on that business model, and we want to support them as well as a free iTunes Radio service. iAd sticks to the same privacy policy that applies to every other Apple product. It doesn’t get data from Health and HomeKit, Maps, Siri, iMessage, your call history, or any iCloud service like Contacts or Mail, and you can always just opt out altogether.
Finally, I want to be absolutely clear that we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will.
Our commitment to protecting your privacy comes from a deep respect for our customers. We know that your trust doesn’t come easy. That’s why we have and always will work as hard as we can to earn and keep it.
Tim
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Great information, thanks for posting.
Now I know there’s no need to get this upgrade.
Carefully, carefully analyze the paragraph about government and backdoors and you’ll see the loopholes possible.
Possible - we’ll not know until we see what secret “national security” court orders they have been handed.
Not to single out Tim or Apple.
Publicly-held, and many privately-held big businesses, and government, and academia, all work for new world order.
Headline should be 25 things you can do on iOS 8 that you could do on an Android two years ago.
My world hasn’t changed.
I always forget about that capability. Thanks for reminding me.
My you are a cynic. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. . . and sometimes a company is just telling the truth.
I have read the that paragraph, but you also have to understand the technology and how it is used. The owners of the devices encrypt their data to 128 bit encryption with a key only they have. Apple does NOT have this key. To decrypt such a cypher by brute force using a supercomputer of circa 2012, it has been calculated that it would take quite a bit of time. By the time it was completed, I am certain the data would be useless. How much time?
"'DES' is part of a symmetric cryptographic algorithm with a key size of 56 bits that has been cracked in the past using brute force attack. As shown above, even with a supercomputer, it would take 1 billion billion years to crack the 128-bit AES key using brute force attack."—EE Times, How secure is AES against brute force attacks?
Supercomputers may have gotten faster and more powerful in the two years since that article was written, but not that much better that they can improve significantly on that time factor. . . nor has anyone come up with a miraculous algorithm to solve such an encryption by finessing it.
Apple, not having your personal key, cannot decrypt data with a key it does not have. Even a backdoor will not help. Therefore, when your data is uploaded to iCloud it is already 128 bit encrypted. Apple anonymizes it and then further encrypts it with 256 bit encryption for storage for which they DO have the key.
When you request data from your iCloud account it is decrypted back to the 128 bit level and returned to your device where YOU can decrypt it back to usable format using your key.
The only thing they can provide to the government are data that YOU are a customer, for how long, your phone number and your primary and alternate email addresses (three things they most likely already have), and when you've accessed your account, possibly the size of your database, and they may be compelled to hand over your encrypted 128 bit data which Apple has but cannot decrypt, for whatever it is worth. . . but not what is in it. Good luck to the government agency in its attempt to decipher it.
Contrary to myth, the CIA and the NSA are also constrained by the same laws of computer science that hamstring everyone else. i.e. their supercomputer capacity would STILL take a billion billion years to crack the cypher.
Similarly, FileVault on a Mac encrypts the data on any drive you choose to use it on to a similar level of encryption. Without your password, it is not, at our current level of technology, breakable.
Among the data that Apple devices routinely encrypt before sending them to iCloud are:
This is not something that a corporation would lightly obfuscate or leave "loopholes" in their plainly written statements, where someone could come back and file lawsuits when their data is subpoenaed and the company releases data they said they could not, proving that statement a lie. That is exactly what is meant when it was mentioned in their audited Financial Statement about a potential liability relating to privacy statements. The statements must be truthful and accurately followed.
On the other hand, most data the government is after is intercepted by the NSA at the carrier level. . . where it is not heavily encrypted. Phone conversations, texting, and emails in the clear are mined. Google reads customer's emails and mines everything it get's it grubby mitts on, and converts that data to its proprietary data. Google believes that data belongs to Google and the government therefore can subpoena it from its "owner" . . . which, now, is not you, but Google. You are not Google's customer but rather, Google's product, its inventory, subject to subpoena and seizure. Since Apple never asserts ownership over the data, you own it, and custody remains with you. YOU are the custodian of your data. It does make a legal difference which Apple has been arguing, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
You could do some of these things on Android with apps. . . as you could with apps on iOS, but not integrated into the OS. . . nor as smoothly.
Well great!
Other than some apps and one camera gimmick, Apple users can now enjoy many of the things I had on my first Galaxy, 4 years ago, and for pads, on my current Surface.
Whoopee.....
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