Trust?

Apple has leaned on their stance on user privacy pretty consistently for the past 20 years, especially under Tim Cook’s leadership. That’s why I’m a bit surprised they haven’t fixed a vulnerability in their “Hide My Email” service available through iCloud+. For those not familiar, “Hide My Email” and similar services obscure the user’s email address with a random string of characters or non-sensical combination of words. This allows folks to set up email subscriptions to newsletters and the like without giving out their real email address. Except, as detailed by the 404, there’s a way to trace this anonymization feature back to the original user. All the details are right here. At one point Apple prided itself on being the “cream of the crop” when it came to personal computing. Not only did they charge premium prices, they felt those premium prices were warranted with the premium hardware, the excellent software, and the beautifully integrated ecosystem provided between all of their…