On: Apple's iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse

[pvg]

With the closed system, you have no idea what Apple or Google is seeing.

I think you have the 'inaccurate bits of conventional wisdom' reversed. People have a pretty good idea of what Apple and Google see and banking on your iPhone is safer than driving to the bank.

[talldayo → pvg]

> People have a pretty good idea of what Apple and Google see

You say that, until: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...

One can really never know what happens with their data server-side. At this point, we barely even control what happens client-side too.