If you are a Chinese Citizen or have acquired an Apple iPhone, iPad, MacBook pro, et al. In The Greatest Country on Earth. Your information now belongs to the Chinese Government.

Apple is naive to believe that China is on their side. I don't fear Tim Cook, And neither does the rest of the world.

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What should users do to counteract this attack? Internet users in China should first use a trusted browser on their desktops and mobile devices - Firefox and Chrome will both prevent users from accessing iCloud.com when they are trying to access a site that is suffering from a MITM attack. Qihoo’s popular Chinese 360 secure browser is anything but and will load the MITMed page directly. If users have ignored the security warnings, they should find an undisrupted connection to iCloud.com. This can be accomplished by using a VPN or by finding a different internet access point because the GFW’s MITM is not that stable. They should also enable two-step verification for their iCloud accounts. This will protect iCloud accounts from attackers even if the account password is compromised. This latest MITM attack may be related to the increased security aspects of Apple’s new iPhone. When details of the new iPhone were announced, we felt that perhaps that the Chinese authorities would not allow the phone to be sold on the mainland. Ironically, Apple increased the encryption aspects on the phone allegedly to prevent snooping from the NSA. However, this increased encryption would also prevent the Chinese authorities from snooping on Apple user data. It is unclear if Apple made changes to the iPhones they are selling in mainland China. However, this MITM attack may indicate that there is at least some conflict between the Chinese authorities and Apple over some of the features on the new phone. This attack will come as a surprise to Apple. In the past, the company has had a bromance with the authorities and have blindly acquiesced when asked to remove apps from the China app store. With such a close, cozy and snuggly relationship, it is hard to imagine that the executives at Apple felt that they would get this kind of treatment in China. Tim Cook is looking in his mirror now and crying “What did I do wrong?”.

https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2014/oct/china-collecting-apple-icloud-data-attack-coincides-launch-new-iphone

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