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)!
“trickled into one of the offshore accounts everyone knows Apple uses to avoid taxes here “
Legally uses.
If you don’t like it, change the laws - or make our tax code competitive.
“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. “
“Hiding income” is a phrase that has been used by liberals to describe companies keeping foreign profits from coming back to the US so to avoid double taxation. The US is the only developed country that does not give a deduction for taxes paid to other countries AND has the highest top bracket in the developed world. That is why Apple and others do “tax inversions”.
Don’t get fooled by the libs.
Well, do any of those have emoticons? No. Therefore, not proper engineering at all.
Don't you understand Cook is a Fag and his stuff cost too much.
The commenters change but the message is always the same old hate I have seen for 30 years. And people wonder why Liberals and Conservatives can't get along.
Who cares what computer or phone I use, better yet who should care other than myself?
That has to be one of the biggest whoppers ever on an Apple Thread. What ever would compel you to come to an Apple Thread and call Apple users Stupid or insane or both if you didn't?
Once I concede your paranoia, anything is possible.
I refuse to concede they've taken over everything in the world. They simply do not have the power and budget to do that. . . nor the need. They are NOT going to surveil everyone in the world to somehow run across something worthwhile. They are NOT interested in the prattle of innumerable Valley girls or 867V309 or the rest of the ONE BILLION iPhone users when what they want to listen in on is a couple of thousand targeted individuals who are of real interest. It is FAR easier and much less expensive to intercept those targeted individuals' streaming phone calls through the ALREADY compromised carriers!
You are one mentally ill individual if you think that Apple does not have backups to their quality control that checks the QA checkers.
Apple pushes out firmware upgrades from time to time that would overwrite what ever was surreptitiously snuck onto the devices in the supply chain by a mole. . . Remember the larger a conspiracy, the more chances it will fall apart as someone leaks the fact that it is happening. Firmware boot loaders are NOT THAT COMPLEX and the code is easily checked by Apple. Anything added would be noticed by Apple.
He's pulled himself back into his tinfoil TeePee and closed the flap. . . and donning his tinfoil jammies. If the great THEY can pull of what he is claiming, we might as well fold OUR tents and join them. We can't fight that kind of competence and pre-planning and power. They ARE, then, all powerful and everywhere. George Orwell's "1984" is already here and nothing we can do. Does he really realize how many little phone manufacturers it would be necessary to infiltrate to achieve what HE is claiming to saturate all phone makers?
This guy is purely and simply a member in good standing of the Apple Hate Brigade and is spouting anything he can throw against the wall with ZERO evidence. He most resembles a Democrat hyperbole specialist screaming "But the Russians!"
And you are lying. If the US IRS had a problem with Apple, they'd be sending them a huge tax bill. They are not.
Apple pays MORE taxes than almost any other US Business and in many years it pays the MOST income tax that ALL other US Businesses. These are not my opinions but facts published by the IRS and easily learned. I published FACTS and you dismissed these facts with innuendo. So what if one commission in Europe wants more of Apple's pie. That commission is the EU's "COMPETITON BUREAU" not their taxation bureau! That bureau, lead by a rabid socialist came to the conclusion that Apple, taking advantage of Ireland's tax law intended to attract foreign business that any business could use, was not paying its fair share of Ireland's income taxes. IRELAND is disputing that conclusion! Another one is Italy's socialist government. . . who also wants to reverse hundreds of years of international tax law. . . and tax Apple on the income that rightfully should be taxed in the US and, in fact, has already been taxed here.
EXACTLY WHAT PART OF APPLE PAYS AN APPROXIMATELY 28% EFFECTIVE US INCOME TAX RATE DO YOU FAIL TO GRASP??? What part of the FACT that it is 10 percentage points HIGHER than the rate that Microsoft pays do you fail to understand? Again, these are easily learned FACTS! They are publicly available and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Apple's and Microsoft's 10K on an annual basis. . . but you apparently wouldn't know that, getting your news from the rumor mill instead, preferring to believe innuendo instead of independent and certified audits which are relied on by courts of law and taxing agencies around the world. YOU WANT TO BELIEVE THE WORST.
Since you have no real facts, you resort to insulting me directly and by imputation. That says a lot more about YOU. What you are imputing to these corporations is projection. It is obviously what YOU would do if you were in charge of them.
Again, we are back to this false premise of "everyone knows" . . . assumptions makes an "ass" out of you, because you "assume," instead of doing the hard work to actually find out the truth. I refuse to accept the rest of that old adage. I do the research, instead of assuming.
Finally, NOW we've gotten to the kind of comment I was expecting to see from that over-hyperbolic headline. Thank you!
I do think that it was quite an achievement in software engineering to be able to convert approximately 700,000,000 iPhones with barely a bobble, but that headline was REALLY over-the-top.
Security is binary. . . it is either secure or it is not. Apple has been claiming this for years and refusing to place a backdoor in its operating systems. If they put one in for the good guys, the bad guys WILL find it, either by their own research, or by bribing or extorting the good guys.
I laughed out loud at that. Startled my girlfriend in the other room. . .
Not at all. Some things can be quite secure and repel all but the best hackers, other things can have poor security and all but the casual hacker can get in with a little effort.
Same thing with your house... you can have an alarm, a dog, great locks, etc. but a pro might still be able to get in... others might simply lock their doors and that might stop some drunk trying the locks but not stop a burglar who can at least pick a lock.
I don't believe there's any such thing as 100% secure for anything... not for a building and not for a computer/device. The more effort you put into securing something, the harder it is to breach... but it's all a matter of who is smarter and puts in more effort and who has more skill... you or your attacker.
You are mistaking the word "secure" for the word "protected." They are not the same. Look up the words.
For laughs, I did... and it's a silly distinction. I'm old school... when I secured systems I also included "process" everything from password management, document protection (storage/handling/shredding/etc.), procedure, human element, and so on.
I guess nowadays they see "security" as just the technical aspects, and then put that along with the human and other "soft" aspects into "protection". Must be some IT college-speak stuff or something.
In any event... call it security or protection... they're not binary at all... it's all about level or degree of "secure" or "protected".
Where in anything I said is a mention that it's illegal for Apple or anyone else to use those accounts?? Ah, you just decided that if someone like the NSA putting money into those accounts because it's more difficult to find those payments was one approach that I must think those accounts are illegal or care that the are legal.
Have a nice day
So tell me again why this is significant?
US tax law is stupid and illogical which is. Nothing like tax inversions would exist if they didn't benefit the government in a number of ways to at least the same extent they benefit the companies using them. Laundering money, hiding money government pays companies, and so on.
I came to this thread because of the insanely inflated and totally unprovable claim of an earth shattering feat of engineering equal to the pyramids and manned space flight.
I think people who may not know that's nothing but marketing BS should know it's not nearly that huge and that Apple is no more likely to be secure than anyone else.
Wanna buy Apple for some other reason, that's your business but I prefer people not fall for marketing scams when I can warn them about them.
From my understanding, TrueCrypt has been compromised or at least depreciated. I don’t think it’s been actively maintained for some time.
Sure you did. I have been watching the same cr@p for 40 years, you care not one whit about facts you just hate all things Apple and those that use them. Apple may not be immune but it is d@mn sure more secure than Android. You can prove me wrong by hacking one I am sure you could get very rich selling a hack.
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