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Siri ‘Feature’ Can Leave Apple Mail Encrypted Text Unencrypted—Here’s The Fix

Posted on November 9, 2019November 9, 2019 By Davey Winder

A Siri feature that improves the suggestions it makes to users can also leave some supposedly encrypted email text unencrypted

A specialist in Apple IT, Bob Gendler, was curious as to how Siri suggests contacts and other information to macOS users. Naturally, he rolled his sleeves up and started digging into the tech. Writing on Medium, Gendler explained how this led him to discover a “suggestions” folder containing multiple files. The significant discovery, however, came when he looked into some of these macOS database files that stored information from applications such as Apple Mail.

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News Tags:Apple, Email, Encryption, Privacy, Siri

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