Although I find the title and tone of the piece a bit meh, he still had a point: Apple is targeting non-tech users who are not familiar with backups, let alone infosec. It is Apple's responsibility to ensure the safety of the data they're asking for, which as the Brisbane news he's pointing to indicates, they're not doing.
'A bit meh'? This might be the most hyperbolic headline I've seen on here in years.
The users Apple is 'targeting' (an odd choice of words; most would use 'customers' here) mostly don't do anything so sensitive with their phones that they need to worry about bad actors within the company which sold them their phone in the first place. In the rare instance where some Apple tech starts stealing nude photos or credit cards, they will be fired, probably prosecuted, and the customer will recover. Big whoop.
>The Australian privacy commissioner will call on technology giant Apple to explain reports of staff stealing, sharing and ranking of customers' explicit photos.
I have no idea why people think this is a crazy hypothetical. Of course some techs will look at your nude photos. And in this case, copy them, post them online, and rate them.
