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grok25··on Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17
The data wasn’t transmitted, communicated or delivered to Apple. It’s E2E encrypted, so Apple can’t receive it.

The service isn’t capable of delivering the keychain to anything other than the user’s own devices.

grok25··on Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17
That’s a weird conspiracy theory. How does anyone figure Apple benefits from this. How is the setting even ‘user hostile’?
grok25··on Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17
> Also I don't understand how you could screw these things up repeatedly for so many features.

Seems like a generic bug in the settings system which is fairly complex. Pretty easy to see how something like that could happen.

grok25··on Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17
It’s not being appropriated. It’s E2EE. It’s a bug, but nothing more.
grok25··on Tell HN: iCloud Password Sync turns on by itself on iOS 17
What computer resources are being used without authorization?
grok25··on Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead
The fact that some people are snobs doesn’t justify the government dictating software specifications to Apple.
grok25··on Apple partly halts Beeper's iMessage app again, suggesting a long fight ahead
> Of course everyone can switch to Signal and this is a moot point, but millions of Apple users use iMessage and aren't likely to switch.

Doesn’t this mean that most people simply don’t care?