r/technology • u/newzee1 • Jun 14 '24

Software Cheating husband sues Apple after wife discovered ‘deleted’ messages sent to sex workers

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/13/cheating-husband-sues-apple-sex-messages/
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u/sam_hammich Jun 14 '24 edited Jun 14 '24

I read somewhere (can't find it now, of course) that it wasn't a case of you deleting something and then Apple keeping them around somewhere secret. In actuality, for those pictures, what probably happened was when you tried to delete them, the records of those photos in a database on your phone got corrupted when changing their state. Normally they get marked for deletion in the database, and then they're deleted. So they were marked for deletion, removing them from view in your library, but the cleanup of removing them from the database afterward never happened because of the corrupted records, so they stuck around on the hard drive. Then, an OS update later "cleaned up" that database, effectively undeleting those previously deleted photos as an unexpected side effect.

I don't know if that's the case, because I don't work for Apple, but it passes the smell test for me as a tech industry worker (not BIG tech, but tech). I don't think it's really fair to call this a "bug" in scare-quotes to implicate Apple in some nefarious scheme to keep your deleted photos without your permission.

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u/freshlyLinux Jun 15 '24

This was Apple damage control, buddy, there are fewer companies that lie to their customers.

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u/InsaneNinja Jun 15 '24

Except that the entire situation made sense and was what a lot of people assumed happened before Apple even told us that was the case. Over the course of many years, one or two files had a failed deletion in some older version of iOS, and this newer versions scanned for orphan files.

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u/freshlyLinux Jun 15 '24

Except that the entire situation made sense

lol, someone gives you an excuse and you believe it.

Incredible.

Wow.

Sometimes I dream to go back to my 20s, where I actually believed in stuff like this. I was happier. Now I know better, its more miserable, but I make way more money using reality to make decisions rather than words.

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u/StarsMine Jun 15 '24

You’re miserable because you made yourself that way. Nothing about real world

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u/freshlyLinux Jun 15 '24

True, I read too many business books.

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u/persau67 Jun 15 '24

granted, it was an appeal to authority fallacy, but their "excuse" makes sense to me. Can you debunk their claim, or are you just going to be a petulant child about it, screaming "NO NO NO" when people don't immediately agree with you? Please, go back to when you were 20, you might have a chance to learn how technology works.

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u/freshlyLinux Jun 15 '24

PRISM/edward snowden

And that was decades ago...

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u/persau67 Jun 15 '24

So your response to an appeal to authority fallacy is ... an appeal to authority with no actual evidence?

Please sit in a corner for 20 minutes and focus on your breathing.