Hum hum hum, bien joué !

So it's pretty funny:
Since older iPhones have batteries that don't hold up well anymore (the batteries are glued in, so you can't replace them yourself), Apple decided to slow down the phones by lowering the CPU frequency. The phones are less responsive, slower, but consume less battery.
In France, Apple took a lawsuit, lost it, and was forced to give the iPhone full performance.
As a result, all over the world, some iPhone users change the settings to "France" in order to have better performances.

EDIT: I've been told that since some versions of iOS, the setting is available. So no need to change for France: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/7/16984234/how-to-iphone-throttling-ios-11-3

(from https://sebsauvage.net/links/?5i7aNA)

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The Wi-Fi subsystem probably passes the Wi-Fi network name (SSID) unsanitized to some internal library that is performing string formatting, which in turn causes an arbitrary memory write and buffer overflow. This will lead to memory corruption and the iOS watchdog will kill the process, hence effectively disabling Wi-Fi for the user.

Beyond "Apple really protects your privacy", there is the reality: Apple employees who shared private photos from a phone that was being repaired.
Note that this is not specific to Apple, since last year there was a pretty big scandal at one of the biggest computer repairers in the US: Employees were happily dipping into the private files of the computers they were entrusted with.

(via https://sebsauvage.net/links/?dMiIjg)

Quelle grosse surprise ! On le vois bien au quotidien que les GAFAM continuent d'agir en toute impunité.

Apple 11 Big Sur is not privacy compliant. The company reacted and has published some patches for it.
Anyway Apple can still block any program of their choice.

(shared by https://linuxfr.org/users/antistress/liens/apple-is-interesting-in-migrating-their-c-code-to-rust-phoronix)

If someone says that MacOS is more secure, then this link will be useful

Apple, promoteur de la vie privée ?
Comme d'habitude, c'est surtout du discours marketing.

Juste une piqûre du rappel.

Comme dit SebSauvage : c'est creepy.

Donc l'appareil est trouvé via le bluetooth. En effet, l'appareil Apple volés envoie automatiquement sa clé publique. L'autre la reçoit, puis envoie les données (localisation GPS et la clé) aux serveurs d'Apple.

Avec un appareil volé même sans Wifi, les autres appareils Apple (qui eux sont connectés), permettent donc de le retrouver.