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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Subject: Re: digital id
Date: 9 Jul 2025 16:33:42 GMT
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On 2025-07-09, Marion <marion@facts.com> wrote:
> On 8 Jul 2025 23:07:47 GMT, Jolly Roger wrote :
>> On 2025-07-08, badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> There are lots more bad actors capable of stealing your digital and
>>> online files than there are those who can steal your physical wallet.
>>> If that stuff is accessible digitally online then it's already at a
>>> higher risk, regardless of encryption level.  How often do you read or
>>> see on the news that the most protected data has been breached by
>>> privacy thieves from thousands of miles away?  How often do people get
>>> their identities stolen from a random database?  At least my wallet is
>>> in my direct possession and no one will get their hands on it unless
>>> they have direct physical access to it, and that would only happen if
>>> I'm mugged or careless.
>> 
>> Apple Wallet data stored in iCloud is end-to-end encrypted, and Apple
>> cannot access it. You're also in full control of whether Wallet data is
>> synchronized to iCloud at all. Where's this "privacy nightmare"?
>
> Knowing history, I wouldn't doubt state actors have long ago cracked
> Apple's encryption given almost nothing Apple makes hasn't been cracked.

Sure, Jan. 

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