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)!
A smart person never trusts ....... or puts anything on any form of media that they don’t want to share. But its fun to clutter the data collection process with chaff.
Lessons are free !
bttt
Nothing like tax inversions would exist if US tax law were not as stupid as it is and has been. When the cost of compliance is less than the total cost of avoidance companies and people pay their taxes.
From the point of view of those who make tax policy those laws work perfectly hand in hand with a massive increase in burdensome regulation.
Counterproductive tax law and massive increases in the regulatory burden is only stupid if you don't recognize what the goal of that approach is.
Brilliantly stated, my FRiend
I was a systems programmer in the wayback days when one had to work in Assembler language and master the fields of IBM's data dumps. I understand enough in principle to know that anything can be slipped into code, thus expect an invasion of privacy when using these complex machines. The devil is in the details and who reads source code to know what all the apps and programs do?
We're fighting a corrupt government which by definition abuses its power to control its citizen's lives. Backdoors are becoming old-fashioned.. As of this week's news, we find out that if our government wants an individual's compliance, it doesn't even need to mine data, it just makes up a story about you, surreptitiously slips it into your computer leaving no trace it was there, and voila--compliance is just a whisper of blackmail away.
You can try to maintain a semblance of dignity and privacy as we slip into totalitarian dictatorship. I appreciate your suggestions on preserving my privacy. It would be good to see a little more dignity upheld among our fine FReeper tech community.
The Westerner
Agree to disagree politely is wise ..... We learn versus burn.
Good lesson Westerner !
Thanks, Squantos. Thought you’d appreciate the sentiment.
I did ..... my security on the internet is never keep anything on my HD, use multiple platforms, windows, linux and mac. Good VPN’s a live boot Tails OS that uses my RAM versus my HD and Tor with multiple bridges ..... all that and I just go read the news. Snagged a great little free software called “ghostery” lets ya know what sites have what trackers analytics etcetera and block them.... I think ya might like it.
I’m of two opinions on net privacy / security ..... either stroll down the middle of vulnerable street or be so stealthy it draws attention ... Either or .... nothing here to see ....:o)
Hope yer well ! .... Stay Safe !
Ghostery is a great pgm. Stupidly, the alt news sites overload the trackers to the point of making them unloadable. Drudge has only a few, and FR only analytics. You know much more than I want to about modern computers. It was never my real interest, just something that I fell into for a few minutes in my youth. I wonder if it is worth trying to be private anymore? There are more ways to walk through my house invisibly than locks on my doors and windows. Sometimes I wish I didn’t understand this.
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