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Apple sued for playing monopoly
Published in News
Monday, 04 March 2024 09:49

Apple sued for playing monopoly


Cloud scams made users pay more

Fruity cargo cult Apple is facing a lawsuit accusing the tech giant of running an illegal monopoly over digital storage for its customers.

iCloud finally gets end-to-end encryption
Published in News
Thursday, 08 December 2022 09:57

iCloud finally gets end-to-end encryption


We didn't want to upset the Chinese

Fruity cargo cult Apple is finally getting its security act together to lock governments out of its iCloud.

Apple surrenders iCloud to cops
Published in News
Monday, 28 February 2022 12:00

Apple surrenders iCloud to cops

 
All that privacy it brags about? Turns out not so much

While Apple, and its fanboys, have been lecturing about how much privacy the fruity cargo cult offers customers, it turns out it is considerably more friendly with law enforcement than they think.

Apple bug blocked subscribers
Published in Mobiles
Wednesday, 12 January 2022 12:32

Apple bug blocked subscribers


Tame Apple Press blamed the telcos

A software bug in Apple iCloud Private Relay caused it to block connections to telcos.

Apple’s iCloud security turned over again
Published in Cloud
Wednesday, 25 August 2021 12:09

Apple’s iCloud security turned over again


And it was not even aware of it

While the fruity cargo cult Apple was trying to reassure stuff that its attempts to scan users iClouds for kiddie porn were totally safe, a bloke in Los Angeles was harvesting an all you can eat buffet of user porn under its nose.

Apple scans iCloud for child sexual abuse
Published in News
Friday, 06 August 2021 11:54

Apple scans iCloud for child sexual abuse


Finally catches up with other cloudy services 

Fruity cargo cult Apple is finally catching up with other cloud companies like Dropbox, Google, and Microsoft and regularly scanning files looking for kiddie porn.

Apple programming strikes again on the iCloud
Published in Cloud


Can’t tell users from Boolean


Apple software genii, who write code that cannot handle transitions for summertime, have written a splendid piece of code for the iCloud which gets frightfully confused by some users' names.

Apple did not bring in end-to-end encryption of iCloud
Published in Cloud


Appears to have caved to FBI pressue

Apple quickly caved to FBI pressure and decided not to encrypt iCloud backups a couple of years ago. Thank goodness nobody would ever try hacking an iCloud account to get compromising photos or data.

Apple does evil on iCloud.net
Published in News
Wednesday, 22 February 2017 11:46

Apple does evil on iCloud.net


Buys and shuts down its social network


Apple has bought the domain name iCloud.net, and shut down the independent social network that lived there.

Apple stores browser history for a year
Published in News
Monday, 13 February 2017 12:02

Apple stores browser history for a year


We thought it was not doing that

Fruity tax-dodging cargo-cult Apple is refusing to fix a Safari feature which stores an Apple fanboy’s browser history on its iCloud.