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iCloud Uploads Local Data Outside of iCloud Drive

posted by martyb on Monday October 27 2014, @01:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the privacy-forecast:-iCloudy dept.

Nerdfest writes:

Jeffery Paul, a Berlin security researcher has a complaint about the latest OS X version:

"Fast forward to 10.10. Presumably to support Continuity, current document state is no longer only saved locally - those in-progress (not yet explicitly “saved”) documents live in iCloud Drive, so that they can be opened on other devices without ever having to hit “save”. This is useful, however, all of my previous open files have now been synchronized to Apple servers.

Notice that all of my locally-stored, “unsaved” documents open in my text editor have now been uploaded in full to a partner in NSA’s PRISM program. This happens for all applications (think iA Writer, Pixelmator, etc.) that had saved application state. Any open and yet-unsaved document within an app is now silently and automatically uploaded to iCloud Drive, and, by extension, the government.

Apple has taken local files on my computer not stored in iCloud and silently and without my permission uploaded them to their servers - across all applications, Apple and otherwise.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by emg on Monday October 27 2014, @04:50AM

    by emg (3464) on Monday October 27 2014, @04:50AM (#110430)

    Frankly, I'm getting to the point where I'm about ready to buy another computer that's never connected to the Internet to do all my important work on. Doesn't seem like I can trust anyone not to send all my files to some remote server without permission.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @05:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @05:32AM (#110433)

    The problem is not the internet connection but the proprietary software abusing you.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @02:22PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @02:22PM (#110519)

      Doesn't have to be proprietary software. Free software is turning to a "take it or leave it" attitude too. Suppose the authors of systemd (not a troll!) decide to put your logs on "free cloud storage"? And deciding that they know better than you, don't give you an option to turn it off? You can patch it yourself, but every security upgrade, your patches are lost. It's like tilting at windmills, but OTOH when many of us moved to Linux back in the day, we had to deal with many more little hassles.