Resident PulserMar 26

Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature

https://infosec.pub/post/44037011

Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature - Infosec.Pub

The move isn’t surprising, but shows what data is available to authorities when paying Apple customers use the Hide My Email feature.

Show threadClownStatueMar 27
Honestly, I have no problem with this. If I’m doing shady stuff, I’m not using iCloud’s hide my email function when it’s so easy to create a throw-away email account elsewhere. The point of hide my was hiding your real email from advertisers/spammers, not to help you do crime.
Show threadPricklesthemagicfish
Man I hate people like you it should be sued for false advertising not im an apple fan boy and im way smarter than everyone else
Mar 27 at 1:11amWeb
Show threadhowmuchlongerMar 27
So, I think we might need to read the fine print on these user agreements before we say “false advertising.” You’d probably be surprised how Apple is pretty transparent about what they will and won’t do.
Show threadJillyBMar 27
How many of the people who accepted that fine print do you think read it? Do you think its the individual’s fault for not combing through every term? Or is it Apple’s fault for misleading people and putting the clarification in a place they know nobody will pay attention?
Show threadhowmuchlongerMar 27

I do think if you’re going to have assumptions about something that you should read the fine print, yes. Do I assume anyone does that? No.

Also, I don’t ever recall them suggesting that they won’t tell the cops who you are if they have a warrant. So I think people misled themselves.

Show threadPricklesthemagicfishMar 27
How many corporate boots can you get in that mouth? Fuck um and the lawyers fine print. You say it and it isnt true straight to jail
Show threadblitzenMar 27

Apple isn’t marketing Hide My Address that way, and if you think they are you deserve what’s coming you.

The article is written with bias, and does not explicitly say Apple turned over the name without being compelled by a warrant. If there was a warrant, this is a non-story; if there wasn’t, I’m not thrilled about it but there are bigger fish to fry.

Show threadgrrgyleMar 27
So people who think “hide my email” hides their email are the real problem, got it
Show threadSlurpingPusMar 27
Only a fourteen-year-old edgelord can think that hiding the email from spammers and hiding it from law enforcement are the same thing.
Show threadgrrgyle4d ago
Or just a fourteen-year-old who doesn’t know better.
Show threadPricklesthemagicfishMar 27
Your autism has missed my sarcasm and laser focused on my lack of caring about her majesty the queens englishs grammer.
Show threadCompactFlaxMar 27
You meant this with /s, right?
Show threadskooma_kingMar 27
They definitely didn’t mean it with grammar or punctuation
Show threadAlexstarfireMar 27
I have no idea what they mean. They could pull a Lionel Hutz.
Show threadPricklesthemagicfishMar 27
You get a gold star while everyone else is shrieking about proper grammar shiiityttt I dint wrote nuffin wrong type shit