inblogtagsapplesecuritymathaidate1/10/2025PenPen's Note: This article is written with the intent of accessibility to non-maths folk who possess some computer knowhow. It comes in wake of the shit storm following Jeff Johnson’s recent “Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15”. There’s a lot of confusion and curiosity about how this technology works, along with criticisms lobbed at Apple’s densely packed published research. The goal of this post is to distill that research into a more unde...