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Apple Photos app corrupts images

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1133 points pattyj | 1 comments | 17 Sep 25 11:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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myshkin5 ◴[17 Sep 25 14:29 UTC] No.45276272[source]▶
I’m a fan of the whole Apple ecosystem but I have to say that there’s a pattern here. Apple does a decent job of keeping my data safe from others but a terrible job of keeping it intact. From music libraries with song titles that got switched to long integers to this (and I’m sure more that I’m not remembering atm) they need to do a better job here.

Sure security is important but integrity is too.

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soperj[dead post] ◴[17 Sep 25 15:14 UTC] No.45276850[source]▶
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ffsm8 ◴[17 Sep 25 15:19 UTC] No.45276904[source]▶
They were also active participants in prism...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

What they actually do is a moderate effort to keep app developers from accessing user data. Which is definitely good!

Though the reason for this likely more about keeping the customer relationship with apple then actually protecting the privacy of users, but it's a nicely marketable side effect - and that's definitely a good thing for the users, too!

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jm4 ◴[17 Sep 25 15:23 UTC] No.45276961[source]▶
Anybody who was anybody back then was an active participant in PRISM. There are no good guys and bad guys when it comes to that. There are businesses that get to keep doing business by doing what the government tells them to do, there are ones that shut down (Lavabit), and there are ones that don't have enough going on to be on the radar for a project like PRISM.
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1. fragmede ◴[17 Sep 25 16:04 UTC] No.45277542[source]▶
Also, Qwest Communications.

But at the end of the day, you gotta be able to sleep with yourself and I have no idea what I'd choose if I were a CEO. Everyone lost their jobs. He did wrong outside of PRISM, so it's hard to say. I'm not him and I already don't sleep well at night.