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> or a carefully vetted and privacy-first cloud system that was designed by people far smarter than you to make sure that Apple could not get to your data.

I've noticed over the years smart people have made great things, but often leave them in the hands of idiots. What does 'carefully vetted' mean.



> What does 'carefully vetted' mean

“We’ll take the extraordinary step of making software images of every production build of PCC publicly available for security research. This promise, too, is an enforceable guarantee: user devices will be willing to send data only to PCC nodes that can cryptographically attest to running publicly listed software” [1].

Based on this thread, Apple over-allocated to engineering over marketing.

[1] https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/




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