New episode is out! @dsearls @katherined Druckman, and @shawnp0wers have fun with #ChatGPT, rant about email disasters, and chat about Apple's new encrypted backups.
@reality2cast @dsearls @katherined @shawnp0wers Re email disasters: I've been afraid too, haven't found how I easy can b/up my multiple IMAPs on Apple Mail client (hoping Time machine may save me if something had happened). However, now when I have migrated to Thunderbird, there is an "Export" of everything in Thunderbird. If less than 2GB directly zip-file. Else I click and the location and I can copy and paste the folder containg all. Hoping it saves me at disaster. https://support.mozilla.org/sv/kb/thunderbird-export
@eliasr @hehemrin @reality2cast @dsearls @shawnp0wers I think that's fair criticism. It may get close for many Apple users, but you have to place a lot of trust in Apple in exchange for convenience.
@eliasr @hehemrin @reality2cast @dsearls @katherined That's the frustrating part, and I think I alluded to it in one or more of the podcast episodes. If it *IS* R2-D2 encryption, then awesome. But there's no way to know for sure that even if we manage the keys locally, that they're really the keys, or that they're not created in some non-pure way.
So while it might be great, we can't confidently assume so, regardless of what they call it.
@shawnp0wers @eliasr @hehemrin @reality2cast @dsearls R2-D2 encryption will never get old. I stand by this. 🤣 (for context, I sent a group message to Shawn and others in which autocorrect transformed e2e to R2-D2 and the world is better for it.)
@hehemrin @reality2cast @dsearls @katherined @shawnp0wers
About the encryption, I think it should be noted that it is misleading to use the phrase "end-to-end encryption" when a Big Brother such as Apple holds the keys. Because Apple's software is closed and proprietary, a user will not know how keys are handled, whatever Apple do it is not meaningful to call it "end-to-end encryption". That requires open source software. If Apple says E2E, that's a scam from Apple, let us not be fooled.