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IndySun
I waded through the (seemingly Apple-leaning ) Wired article whilst thinking how people here remind me that iOS is propriety - therefore it may not be private.

I then waded into the warm comments (all the while thinking, iOS is propriety) confused how people supposedly of tech-renown champion iOS 14 for privacy not mentioning the propriety bit.

I'm told that most of what you do on any Apple thing is known to Apple via various system processes (some can be turned off), which is hardly private.

Basically, the Wired headline should honestly read "OS 14, possibly the most secure propriety mobile OS ever"?

ffpip
Does ArsTechnica not know the difference between privacy and security?

Apple devices are not exactly known for security. They have had horrible security bugs. Remember the root access without a password thing? Or the sign in to anybody's Apple account without a password?

But yes, Apple does beat everybody else in privacy protection.

asdhaslkskdh
If someone manages to get access to your smartphone photos, is that a security or privacy violation?

It doesn't really matter to the end user.

ffpip
It depends on how he got access to it. By exploiting the OS, or because it didnt use the permission prompts correctly or it was misleading me.
weare138
It's a tech news site, they should know better. The article is clearly about new privacy features in iOS 14 and doesn't cover any technical aspects of iOS 14's actual security. Calling it 'the most secure mobile OS ever' is just clickbait.
brian_herman
I don’t think so ever since they got bought by condé nast their writing took a nosedive. They had a writer that did Mac OS and iOS reviews which were very extensive but he stopped doing them. It looks like their replacement is just a superficial review of a mobile operating system
danlugo92
Not open source, not secure.
IndySun
That's what I was trying to say.
thomaslord
Are Android 0days still selling for way more than iOS 0days due to relative scarcity, or is that outdated information?

If it's still true, this article is missing pretty much the whole story.

brian_herman
It should have been iOS 14 they didn’t screw up iCloud and interface now matches what you could have gotten on android last year.