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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: 1) by drgibbon on Monday October 27 2014, @07:55PM
You have got to be joking, it sounds like you beamed in your post from the year 2000. There's no "tinfoil hattery" here, and your "NOW THE GUMMINT HAS ALL MY SEKRIT FILEZ BECAUSE PRISM!!1ONE!!" pushes the same silly logic that privacy is about "secret filez" and "secret business". I would say that from the leaks, Apple & co already do give access to their servers, but we cannot prove that iCloud itself is compromised. You want some direct proof in this instance that you are not going to get, but I think we've seen enough of the depth and breadth of the intelligence communities subversion of Internet security and trust that you would be a fool to maintain this "show me evidence for each specific case or I believe nothing". And this argument, "oh ok, so don't trust Google, don't trust Apple, don't trust Microsoft blah" is utterly worthless if those corporations dominate computing in the world.
The guy's point is that things are being uploaded which people may not have wanted uploaded (and yes, there's reasonable chances that this data is accessible by third parties). Granted, this is an extremely minor aspect is the privacy battle that's going on, but it's hardly unwarranted.
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