Apple Fails To Remove 'Deleted' Safari Web Browser Histories From iCloud (betanews.com)

Reader BrianFagioli writes: Apple was storing Safari browsing histories in iCloud, even after they had been 'deleted' by the user, with such records being kept going back to 2015 -- although apparently this was an accidental by-product of the way the cloud syncing system works rather than anything malicious, and the issue has now been fixed. This information first came to light in a Forbes report, which cited Vladimir Katalov, the chief executive of Elcomsoft, a Russian security firm (which focuses on password/system recovery). Katalov stumbled onto the issue when reviewing the browsing history on his iPhone, when he discovered his supposedly deleted surfing history still present in iCloud, being able to extract it by using his company's Phone Breaker tool.

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accident my ass

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"Accidentally", yeah... I've got a bridge to sell, cheap, then.

As details of this case are not yet know, let's take a look at Google's 8.8.8.8. It is widely advertised as anycasted, and indeed, it is. However, have you noticed that, no matter where you are, all those anycast targets are located in a single country, despite the very purpose of anycast being geographic proximity? You can't suspect Google of technical incompetence, what could the real reason be, then?

Let's see... we have 2nd most nosy company, all targets are in the 1st most nosy country, both of which have extensive machinery to cross-match this kind of data. But, Google is perfectly capable of serving DNS from any of their datacenters, and only then coalescing the logs, so they have no incentive to degrade user satisfaction they'd be able to trivially fix. Thus, it's clear who's evil here.

So, is your resolver set to 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4? Do you enjoy the metadata on every single TCP/IP connection you make that's not using a numeric literal being logged by someone who received a nice fat NSL?

I guess that Apple, with all their evilness elsewhere, is not the party to blame here.