Deleted private photos "resurrected", Apple's privacy protection has dropped the chain?

Coldplay Labs

2024-06-03 16:04Posted in Henan Science and Technology Creators

Privacy is an ancient topic.

From the time the first humans covered their private parts with leaves, privacy has been intimately linked to us.

We start to be ashamed of privacy, and we protect it.

Once privacy is a demand, then destroying privacy is a desire.

This philosophy has been woven into human works and anecdotes since ancient times.

For example, the Chinese folk literature masterpiece "The Golden Vase Plum" has to discuss the importance of privacy with readers in a few words.

In the 13th time, Yingchun peeked at Ximenqing and Li Bei'er cheating. As a result, only 7 times later, and the 20th time, Ximen Qing backhanded and peeped at Sister Li Gui to accompany the guests.

In the 13th time, I directly built a ladder to climb over the wall, which is a physical circumvention

Even in the modern age of advanced science and technology, mankind has landed on the moon, Jiaolong has entered the sea, and the atomic bomb has been tested in Japan.

We still can't solve the privacy problem.

For example, Mr. Guanxi, who is very concerned about personal privacy now, did not protect his privacy when he was young.

In 2006, Edison Chen's personal computer malfunctioned.

He asked his assistant to help him go to the computer shop to repair the computer, and told the repairman not to open the files in the computer.

As a result, this computer maintenance worker named Xie Liqiao backhanded all the entertainment works of Mr. Guanxi to the forum.

Let Mr. Guanxi complete the last dance in the entertainment industry.

At this point, in addition to eating and sitting against the wall, fishing wears a helmet.

Deleting private files before repairing a computer has also become a self-protection method in contemporary society.

The Japanese nation, which has always been rigorous and detail-oriented, has also continued to tell many Chinese young people through literary and artistic works that they pay attention to privacy.

The sentence "Mrs., you don't want these things to be known by your family", made the audience all creepy.

Avoiding privacy leaks has always been one of the selling points of iPhone.

If Jobs and Cook had been born 10 years earlier and mass-produced the iPhone earlier, perhaps Guanxi would still be active on the TV screen.

However, a Reddit user recently posted that old photos he had deleted had suddenly reappeared in his album, and some iOS beta testers were complaining about the same problem. In other words, the photos you deleted in your iPhone may not be completely deleted, and in the future, they will most likely be resurrected in your phone.

01 Your private photos are being resurrected

A few years ago, a friend of mine went out to talk about business, went to Vietnam, and experienced the local KTV by the way, out of appreciation of Vietnamese women's aesthetics, he quietly turned on his mobile phone and took photos of the practitioners.

As a result, he forgot to turn off the flash.

An older female supervisor asked him to hand out his iPhone and said fluently in Chinese and English: "I deleted the photo"

And he did.

Then the female supervisor pointed to the "recently deleted" of the iPhone and said that it was not deleted, and it had to be deleted here.

At the time, the iPhone version hadn't broken this shocking bug, but after iOS 17.5, my friend might be able to revisit the old place.

In fact, in normal iOS photo albums, Apple does provide users with a recovery function for deleted photos, but the function is only for 30 days.

When more than 30 days have passed, the photos deleted by the user will theoretically be deleted permanently. Everyone thought so until that Reddit post came out.

In this way, one stone stirred up a thousand waves, and more and more users began to share their abnormal data that was "resurrected" on iOS.

One Reddit user said he saw an undeleted image he had taken years ago pop up in the "Recent" album.

The most appalling thing was when one user said that more than 300 of his deleted "private" photos were suddenly on an iPad that had already been sold to a friend.

In other words, is it possible that Apple is actually quietly collecting user data?

Even, some people reported that after the version update, all 26 voicemails in their voicemail were "resurrected".

Countless Apple users began to discuss the Internet for explanations, and just like that, Apple suddenly became the center of the storm.

Some people suspect that Apple has been using iCloud to spy on user data, but then another user said that he had never used iCloud to sync his phone, but still saw the resurrected picture.

So since it has nothing to do with iCloud, how did the deleted pictures come back to life?

According to Apple's subsequent update to fix the iOS 17.5.1 patch, these deleted data actually came from the device's local storage, and the reason why it was resurrected is entirely because we never deleted it in the true sense.

It's like when you were a kid and your mom told you to clean up the trash on your study desk, but you put it all in a drawer.

It's not that the eyes can't see and the garbage disappears.

In the same way, to use the X girl inequality that is popular all over the Internet, I delete the photo ≠ the photo disappears.

A homeowner thinks that if he puts his garbage outside his bedroom, he can't see it

02 I deleted the photo ≠ the photo disappeared

Here is a little knowledge about computer data, in most of the current projects, programmers use tombstone.

What does that mean?

Let's recall the deletion of files on the computer.

Is it true that the file will appear in the recycle bin after deletion, but as long as you click on the recycle bin to restore, the data will be revived almost instantly.

This is because the data itself has not been deleted at all, it is just that the address has been changed to the recycle bin.

This is actually very understandable, your command to "throw garbage" in reality is only asking the society to transfer the garbage to the address of the garbage dump.

Essentially, the information made up of 0s and 1s doesn't change anything on your hard drive at all, so it recovers so quickly.

Even if you empty the recycle bin and try to delete the data completely, the underlying logic is actually the same as before, you just delete the index of the file in the system, so that your system can't find the data.

The 0s and 1s are still intact on your hard drive, and as long as there is a way to fix the index, your "emptied recycle bin" can be restored as well, which is tombstone.

So, some software intimately provides a deep cleaning option, I remember when I was a child, I used a certain security guard or a certain master, just in the right-click menu, providing a deep cleaning option, and I clicked into it.

TMD jumped to the download address of XX Cleaner Master and XX Desktop.

There are similar challenges at station B, and you can check them out if you are interested

So since the original data is not deleted, how is the new data written in?

As mentioned earlier, the essence of deletion is to make the system lose the index of the deleted file.

It's just that you can't see the garbage in your home.

Under normal circumstances, the system marks the hard disk space occupied by the deleted files as empty.

When new data comes in, it will be directly overwritten in this "empty" space, and your old data will be overwritten by the new data little by little.

Only when all the space is overwritten by the new data and the old data does not exist at all, the data is deleted in the true sense and can no longer be restored.

This logic corresponds to an ancient poem, "Falling red is not a ruthless thing, turning into spring mud is more protective of flowers"

When the flowers of the trees become "garbage", they fall on the land, and gradually they are covered with new soil, which becomes nutrients and "disappears" into nature.

And Apple's "resurrection" photo this time is caused by a tombstone bug.

According to Apple's explanation, the main reason why iOS17.5 has the problem of photo "resurrection" is that the data entries on the device's file system are corrupted.

According to the findings of foreign media in the reverse processing of Apple's subsequent fix patch iOS17.5.1, the most important change is that the data migration routine of 17.5.1 has been deleted.

Data migration, this feature may be the "culprit".

It works by scanning old data in the underlying file system and reimporting it into a photo.

However, due to a bug, photos that should theoretically have been "deleted" were rescanned and added back to the album.

That's why it's the files on the device itself that are affected, not those that have been synced to iCloud.

The way this bug works is like a boy who wants to throw away his summer vacation homework and is found by the police with great difficulty.

So that's the way it is, there's no such thing as a big company that Apple has been monitoring and recording users' private data.

This is just a fortuitous incident caused by a bug.

After the patch was released, Apple also emphasized once again that most users' iPhones were not affected, and Apple also did not have access to the photos and video files on users' phones.

But even if the bug is fixed, can you really store your privacy on your iPhone and never leak it?

Even if the iPhone can protect your privacy well, do you think you can be a transparent person in the Internet society?

I thought, it's hard.

The world is a pervasive cocoon, with only a bright lamp hanging from it, and beyond the light, there is only darkness.

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