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Originally Posted by leebase
About that security issue:
An Apple spokesperson told iPhone in Canada it had updated its support document, ‘Safely open apps on your Mac’, to now further detail its privacy protections.
“Gatekeeper performs online checks to verify if an app contains known malware and whether the developer’s signing certificate is revoked,” explains Apple. “We have never combined data from these checks with information about Apple users or their devices. We do not use data from these checks to learn what individual users are launching or running on their devices,” clarified the company.
“Notarization checks if the app contains known malware using an encrypted connection that is resilient to server failures,” says Apple, further emphasizing, “These security checks have never included the user’s Apple ID or the identity of their device. To further protect privacy, we have stopped logging IP addresses associated with Developer ID certificate checks, and we will ensure that any collected IP addresses are removed from logs,” details Apple.
On top of this, Apple says “over the next year we will introduce several changes to our security checks,” specifically:
a new encrypted protocol for Developer ID certificate revocation checks
strong protections against server failure
a new preference for users to opt out of these security protections
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I always have to question the motives of a poster who brings up an Apple issue as to whether they are just anti-Apple. @gbm has several devices listed in his Device area, but none or from Apple. Besides, that article reads more like propaganda than an investigative report. My take is that Apple has always highly guarded and secured our data in the past, so I don’t worry about them on such matters...