[quote=“Medievalist, post:55, topic:86506, full:true”]
You’re willing to judge people you don’t know (who are running custom OSes) based on the twits of other people you don’t know talking about non-customized OSes, and also you prefer to trust people who are running Apple OSes with built-in back doors? To each his own, I guess. [/quote]
As someone who does security for a living, I advocate that people who really want secure to use client-side encryption (like iPGMail), don’t use iCloud, backup to an encrypted removable drive, don’t use biometrics, use two-factor auth, don’t display mesages in the lock screen, and use third-party apps as little as possible.
Most people don’t need to be that careful. 2FA, don’t display messages, no iCloud, and local backups is enough for most people.
If you need a cloud storage option, I’ll trust Apple (who make $0 off of your personal details) over someone like Google who still make the vast majority of their income from mining personal data and details for advertising any day. It doesn’t make them inherently bad actors, but they have a MUCH greater incentive to do things like mine your email, photos and whatnot for marketable data than a company who derives no revenue from such practices.
