Not a backdoor.

Also, a local database the os uses to tie its various functions together is literally how it’s marketed. I havent been able to investigate this because my lemmy time has been dominated by explaining thermodynamics and making personalized shopping recommendations but I imagine this is part of the “apple ai” slider.

The last little bit of the linked article really gives the lie up. “Your logs are a secret sleep schedule”. Yeah. A graphene phone with even just normal device logs will function the same way.

Pardon the glib tone but I’m often worried about exhibiting symptoms of paranoid delusions or schizophrenic behavior simply because it’s easy to slide into acting like a tinfoil hatter when you pay attention to computer security but articles like this really help make me feel normal. These sources need to be read with the utmost scrutiny because they can’t even be assed to proofread their ai generated article for consistency and clarity. If I found some terrifying hidden database inside a piece of software and made the decision to release those findings using an llm generated document I’d at least check to make sure it doesn’t say something stupid at the beginning and end.