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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.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday October 27 2014, @02:42PM
That's my step 7, except I'd boot from a USB stick for performance reasons. LiveCDs sort of suck performance wise.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 27 2014, @04:34PM
But CDs are harder to compromise than USB sticks.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday October 27 2014, @07:47PM
I totally agree, but what about a complete reformat of the USB stick between uses? Maybe a multipass write of random data (*), then a reformat, then reload the OS from an ISO. I only cringe at the CD option because of the performance issues.
(*) is this necessary with non-magnetic media?