Given Apple’s big moves this week to roll out new data protection tools for iMessage and allow users to encrypt more of their data in iCloud, it seems obvious that security is going to be a major Apple priority in the year ahead.
Stamping out surveillance
The Biden administration’s decision to blacklist the mercenary hackers at NSO Group was a welcome move, but it hasn’t stopped the ”surveillance-as-a-service” industry. Instead, it’s atomized it, which means we now have more companies offering such ”services” than ever before.