[HN Gopher] iCloud for Windows downloading other people's photos
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       iCloud for Windows downloading other people's photos
        
       Author : whatever1
       Score  : 84 points
       Date   : 2022-11-21 20:10 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | whatever1 wrote:
       | In a world of containers and micro services, I do not understand
       | why we cannot have independent databases and buckets per user,
       | specially if we are talking about sensitive data.
        
         | tyingq wrote:
         | I'm guessing it's an uninitialized buffer in a shared encoder
         | instance, where independent storage wouldn't have helped much.
        
         | jjtheblunt wrote:
         | well clearly we can, and this is clearly a monstrous bug ?
        
       | lovehashbrowns wrote:
       | Holy heck this is a bad one. That response from the security team
       | is completely unacceptable. I wonder if there's a way to force
       | this to happen, e.g. by modifying the file contents directly.
        
       | ilikehurdles wrote:
       | This should be a showstopper, critical issue. I'm surprised to
       | see this still be in the wild after being posted on Friday of
       | last week.
        
       | kylehotchkiss wrote:
       | Has somebody tried emailing this to Tim? a note saying it was
       | ignored by apple's security submission process would probably be
       | a good addition
        
         | s1mon wrote:
         | I had another issue with iCloud and photo syncing being
         | abysmally slow, and I ended up digging through LinkedIn and I
         | found the director of engineering for photos at Apple. I
         | messaged that person through LinkedIn, and ended up getting
         | some very senior tech support people who helped go through my
         | issues with me. I hesitate to post contact info, but just
         | saying... it's possible if you are polite and can clearly
         | articulate the issue to get someone like that to help really
         | escalate the support.
        
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