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Apple just pulled off one of the great engineering feats of all time
MacDailyNews ^ | March 29, 2017

Posted on 03/29/2017 11:56:48 PM PDT by Swordmaker

“Apple just pulled off one of the great engineering feats of all time by upgrading a few hundred million devices to a new file system,” Dave Farrington writes for NoodleMac. “Folks, that’s no mean feat.”

“At the heart of all the cosmetic changes and app updates in iOS 10 this week, came a big one. APFS. That’s Apple’s new file system, now standard on iPhone, iPad, and Watch; and coming soon to macOS,” Farrington writes. “Think 20th century vs. 21st century. Also, think Apple against the rest of the world – especially criminals and governments – which does not seem to appreciate privacy and security the way you and I do.”

“On the Mac, you can use FileVault to encrypt the entire disk drive. Secure, right? Unless someone gets in, then everything is open and available, and FileVault is an all or nothing security option,” Farrington writes. “On the Mac, you can use FileVault to encrypt the entire disk drive. Secure, right? Unless someone gets in, then everything is open and available, and FileVault is an all or nothing security option. APFS can do full disk encryption, too, but it can also encrypt specific files, so expect to see that option built into the Mac in the future. With both single or multi-key support.”

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Our myriad iOS devices have been updates to the momentous iOS 10.3 and all are working just fine so far (better than ever, in fact)!



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; applepinglist; iosupdate; iphone; newfilesystem
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To: 867V309
Since this BS “apple is the most secure thing since sliced bread” thread has been totally hijacked, what is your take on TrueCrypt?

From the first line on TrueCrypt's website:

"WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues"

21 posted on 03/30/2017 1:39:30 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: 867V309
I stopped following TrueCrypt development a few years ago but I seem to recall several instances that occurred after official support was dropped where LEO agencies were unable to decrypt data it had encrypted. I gather there's a recent development along the lines of updating it to run on newer OpSystems but I can't recall the name of the project.

For a free tool to encrypt your data, especially if you have an older box running XP for some reason, you could do a lot worse according to the people I know who study encryption.

Regards

22 posted on 03/30/2017 1:46:19 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Swordmaker

First, about all your encryption blather, encryption is NOTHING if your software betrays your key. Source code!

But ask yourself "Why would Apple collude with the NSA to destroy their business model, which is built on the trust..."

Because they rely on incredulous fanbouys who refuse to open their eyes to the truth. The lie is so much more comfortable.

Colluding with NSA etc. is profitable, just ask that fakebook pajama boy. And refusing to cooperate can be bad: "How is your family, anyway?"


23 posted on 03/30/2017 1:46:27 AM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: 867V309
Prove to me that the NSA has not colluded with apple, which, after all, is the BIG question.

It's not open source software, so there's no way for you (or anybody) to audit it properly, is there?

24 posted on 03/30/2017 1:47:34 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: markomalley

It's not open source software, so there's no way for you (or anybody) to audit it properly, is there?

exactly. For all we know, it could be doing anything.


25 posted on 03/30/2017 1:58:40 AM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Swordmaker
But ask yourself "Why would Apple collude with the NSA to destroy their business model, which is built on the trust of their one billion customers around the world?"

LOL. Five or ten bucks per user (out of a black budget so large a few tens of billions is chicken feed) trickled into one of the offshore accounts everyone knows Apple uses to avoid taxes here and in Europe, government contracts to buy large quantities of your hardware and a contract obligating the government to regularly upgrade that hardware, elastic enforcement (if any) of H1B Visa laws, and a half dozen other things that increase profit margins. And none of that even touches on ego feeding the government and government media can do for the head of the company.

All wrapped in a neat package of preplanned, ready to execute, media campaigns and fake government tantrums to make sure those billions of users never believe any negative reports about your security or about the degree to which you cooperate.

You have your answers, realists have theirs.

26 posted on 03/30/2017 2:00:44 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Rashputin
LOL. Five or ten bucks per user (out of a black budget so large a few tens of billions is chicken feed) trickled into one of the offshore accounts everyone knows Apple uses to avoid taxes here and in Europe, government contracts to buy large quantities of your hardware and a contract obligating the government to regularly upgrade that hardware, elastic enforcement (if any) of H1B Visa laws, and a half dozen other things that increase profit margins. And none of that even touches on ego feeding the government and government media can do for the head of the company.

Excuse me. But anytime someone uses the phrase "everybody knows" it always precedes a falsehood. Yours is a whopper! Apparently you are unaware of the fact that Apple, although accused by DEMOCRAT SENATORS of not paying taxes and using off shore accounts, as you just did, testified before a Senate Investigating Committe in 2014 under oath and produced their audited financial records as well as their tax returns. Those records showed, for example that in 2012, Apple paid more taxes that]n any other tax payer in the US, and in fact, paid 0ne dollar out of every forty dollars of business income taxes paid to the IRS that year and it was a fairly typical year for Apple. These are public records, you can look them up. That year, Apple's effective US Income Tax rate after all credits and allowances, deductions, etc. was 28.6%. That was far higher than Google's 11%, facebook's 18% and Microsoft's 17%. Amazon paid no taxes.

Last year, Apple's effective US Income tax rate was 27.8%. The reason the taxes paid in Europe are so low is due to international tax law the states that international businesses pay their income taxes in their home countries, where they're headquartered. So much for your claims of Apple hiding money offshore and not paying taxes. It's ALL been accounted for and the taxes paid.

27 posted on 03/30/2017 2:20:03 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: 867V309; Swordmaker
exactly. For all we know, it could be doing anything.

Having said that, if you use any proprietary software, you have to have some trust in the developer(s) of that software. Consider it.

(And in all honesty, how many of us have the knowledge and the time to audit our open source software? In which case, then you'd have to trust those who do the audits...)

Honestly, when I found out about the telemetry that Win10 sends back to Redmond, I vowed to now "upgrade" my laptop to Win10. Now with the latest crap that M$ has pulled killing Win7 and (yuck) Win8, I will never buy another M$ OS again. Ever. [And that includes buying a computer product with an M$ OS factory-installed]

I have seriously thought about buying a Macbook Pro as my next laptop (despite the hype, they do make really good products and have world class customer support), but the yuck factor from Apple cultists like Swordmaker just causes my stomach to turn.

28 posted on 03/30/2017 2:22:29 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: 867V309

Indeed! Apple, Microsoft, and other OS coders are all in collusion with NSA. And just possibly your neighbors as well! Best to use your black market connections to buy your supplies of tinfoil so they don’t find out you are on to them.


29 posted on 03/30/2017 2:33:16 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: markomalley

Having said that, if you use any proprietary software, you have to have some trust in the developer(s) of that software. Consider it.

Beyond HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL I couldn't audit code if you paid me.

But I assume windoze and apple are totally owned by the deep state. We KNOW what government is like, so why would anyone NOT assume that?


30 posted on 03/30/2017 2:34:11 AM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Rashputin

You left out the North Koreans or do you know something the rest of us don’t ?


31 posted on 03/30/2017 2:34:29 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: 867V309
First, about all your encryption blather, encryption is NOTHING if your software betrays your key. Source code!

And just how, pray tell, is the CIA going to sneak these changes into Apple's source code without Apple's quality control noticing the change in size and functionality, much less the check sums of the code? You believe in the tooth fairy. You want to believe in something that was NEVER EVEN HINTED AT in the #Vault7 dump! You're grasping at strawmen! Ive also told you the encryption engine and the data processor are independent. The data processor cannot access the encryption engine and vice verse. They are hardware locked out from doing so. Only very constrained data can be passed between them and the key is deliberately not among those data.

Keep grasping. I've researched the architecture. You don't have a clue.

32 posted on 03/30/2017 2:35:29 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: 867V309

can not prove a negative

but we do know the Apple culture under Jobs


33 posted on 03/30/2017 2:39:29 AM PDT by vooch
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To: 867V309

“exactly. For all we know, it could be doing anything.”

Indeed it is! You are discovered and can expect a sudden door collapse sometime in the wee hours of some g-d forsaken dreary AM after which you will be replaced by a clone which will refute everything you are saying bad about Apple.

The end is nigh!


34 posted on 03/30/2017 2:41:06 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Swordmaker

And just how, pray tell, is the CIA going to sneak these changes into Apple's source code without Apple's quality control noticing the change

You never considered the possibility that the creeps have infiltrated "Apple's quality control?"

Sorry, you are no longer worth my time.


35 posted on 03/30/2017 2:43:40 AM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Swordmaker

Seems the license plate named guy has written you off and crawled back under his tinfoil hut, You must be heart broken to go to such effort in your explanations only to be rudely shoved into some soggy corner.


36 posted on 03/30/2017 2:48:39 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Swordmaker
Ok, I'll correct that since you think it's a big deal.

Accounts the US Justice Department and IRS along with the equivalents in four or five European countries along with China and Japan know Apple uses to hide from taxes.

So, you're right, there are probably a few total dolts who don't know that Apple and every other company with manufacturing overseas hides income in such accounts and with the same accounting tricks. If your contention is that Apple has less on the ball when it comes to accounting than other companies that's fine with me.

As for the rest of your BS, you're doing what's known as mirror imaging, that is, you attribute to Apple the same motives and values you have when an impartial analysis might well lead you to a different conclusion. That leads you to believe what Cook and Apple see as rational actions are the same actions you would choose.

I actually don't give a rip what fans of Apple do one way or another. It's their money to spend and if they like to think they have a tidy little secure device, more power to em'.

Kiss your Apple hardware good night and have a wonderful day tomorrow.

37 posted on 03/30/2017 2:48:59 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: PIF

I don’t know about the Norks and Apple. Does Kim Ill Dung work at an Apple Genius Center or something?


38 posted on 03/30/2017 2:53:16 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: The Westerner
Best new feature so far: the new emoticons.

Yes, Apple hires the finest emoticon engineers in the business. With something this important, cost is not a concern.

39 posted on 03/30/2017 3:04:17 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Rashputin

No he never worked at the Genius Bar. Rather, he’s was the brains behind Jobs and the Woz. Without him, Apple would never have happened.

The Kim family in NOKO is the fount of all wisdom and knowledge, given to them by ancient ascended masters ...


40 posted on 03/30/2017 3:28:15 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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