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Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent (appleinsider.com)
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In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

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[–] 36 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Just an FYI for anyone that didn’t know, your iMessages on your computer are literally just stored in a SQLite db. They’re very very easy to read without the app.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Source? AFAIK iMessages are stored encrypted by the Secure Enclave and can only be read through the same process that Touch ID works through. That’s why they can’t do iMessage through a browser because there must be a Secure Enclave present on the device. Pretty much the same reason Graphene OS only works on some devices.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Me? I wrote an app to read my iMessage database to pull two factor codes out and type them in automatically cause I was lazy.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Link to repo?

    Seriously, this is the Internet… pics or it didn’t happen.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    https://spin.atomicobject.com/search-imessage-sql/

    This article is from years later. Seems like it got harder, but it’s still dead simple. Just give permission and then open the file.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 month ago

    This is describing the ability to read the messages from the actively booted and decrypted partition. This would absolutely not work without being able to log onto the machine. So while you are technically correct you are leaving out the caveat that this only works when you can also access the app not strictly without the app.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Is Android any better in this regard?

    Not whatabouting, generally ignorant and curious.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    I don’t think Android has a corresponding computer operating system so no? This doesn’t apply to iPhones or iPads. Just Macs. And I’m not even sure if it applies to M series MacBooks, but it applied to the old intel ones about 5 years ago at least which was the last time I read my messages that way.

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