TWIT 1020: Smell My Mouse

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It looks like ADP is what is being targeted, not end-to-end encryption, although I’m sure law enforcement would like a master key to everything.

Like Leo said, no normal users enabled it, but everyone is now up in arms saying they will switch to Android (!)

Is there any other end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that’s able to be used on mobile devices? MS OneDrive isn’t. Google Drive isn’t. DropBox?

Samsung’s equivalent is EDP, but they don’t have a storage solution. Just sync and backups.

I don’t think that’s relevant. People should have the right to secure their data.

A great panel, joy to listen to.

Agreed. Just noticeable not many people were aware of ADP before this. Now lots of bad advice circulating saying iPhones are insecure as a result of ADP being unavailable.

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Regarding the AIs knowing what you are doing, someone mentioned that Amazon knows what you have bought, so the AI can help because it knows what is in your house.

That hasn’t helped Amazon in the past. They only advertise products I’ve already bought. “You bought a new dishwasher last month, here are another 5 that could interest you!” Just how many kitchens do they think I have in my 1 bedroom flat?

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Regarding Chimes and Zoom, Teams did take off. 98% of the external meetings we have are Teams, I think I have one vendor that uses Zoom, I had my first Google Meet last week and I’ve had 2 Chimes calls.

I do therapy over Google Meet. But my previous therapist used MS Teams.

(I’m listening to this episode currently. So maybe I’ll have more to say later)

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Chime is the worst video conferencing solution I’ve ever used.

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ADP is end-to-end encryption. Otherwise Apple holds the keys to your iCloud account and can hand it over to law enforcement.

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Understood. But there are other things that Apple end-to-end encrypts by default, even without ADP enabled and AFAIK that isn’t part of this government request. Messages (but not backups), payment methods, transactions, health data etc.

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