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iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

And a person claimed in a later post that “around 300” of their old pictures, some of which were “revealing,” appeared on an iPad they’d wiped per Apple’s guidelines and sold to a friend.

How would that even work? Wiping a device resets the encryption keys, doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And the images are tied to an Apple ID.

So somehow the fully factory reset iPad accidentally logged in to the old Apple ID and merged deleted photos to the new Apple ID

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Both seem equally improbable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It sounds like these aren't still on the device somewhere, but re-downloaded from iCloud.

So presumably the device ID is somehow being used to incorrectly "authenticate" to iCloud and old images are being restored.

This definitely raises some major concerns about how iCloud authentication works.