> Not to mention people who travel to China for holiday/work purposes.
Like a lot of Apple employees themselves, considering so much of the manufacturing is there. I would love to be a fly on the wall of their infosec team.
Exactly. And I worked at Apple and it's not like we were given special phones with enhanced security. It's just a standard VPN to log on to internal sites.
And of course the problem with keychains like this is that surely amongst one of your previous accounts is the password you used for your VPN and/or work email.
Interesting read. The ending is grim and sad when you read it now. Lee's words from 7 years ago now ring hollow and false:
Kai-Fu Lee now says that if you look at China’s behavior over a long horizon—20 or 30 years—it’s clear that the trend is toward more openness. The incidents that led to Google’s retreat were “a perturbation” in this movement, mainly because Chinese leaders had reached their limits. “The next generation will come up in less than two years,” he says. “They’re younger, more progressive, many American-trained, and many have worked in businesses and run banks—they’re going to be more open.”
Considering China back slided in the past decade (opening up before 2008 then hitting reverse afterwards), we will have to wait and see. The current leadership came of age during the cultural revolution, which probably has a lot to do with the current trend to authoritarianism, many them only got honorary degrees when the schools reopened in the late 70s. The next generation of leadership should be much much different.
Could you cite any examples? I'm asking about China, not Hong Kong. Every time I ask this question, I am consistently pointed to repression in Hong Kong.
I’m only referring to mainland. 1980s obviously building up to 1989, where there was a huge regression after Tiananmen. Then it started opening up again, working it’s way to the Olympics to show the world that China was no longer closed socially and economically (we could even access Facebook and gmail back then, note that CNN was blocked in 2002 but not in 2008 and not today). After the Olympics, everything was cut back: more censorship, internet great fire wall blocking, crackdown in minority areas, and so on, building continuously until today.
Yeah, I don't know what kind of leaders he was thinking of when he said the next generation would come up in two years. At least at the very top, it might take decades.
You don’t understand how iCloud Keychain works and are spreading FUD. GP already linked the white papers which explain why what you are saying is inaccurate.
Like a lot of Apple employees themselves, considering so much of the manufacturing is there. I would love to be a fly on the wall of their infosec team.