Q: How to locally sync an iPhone with OS X Mavericks? iCloud is NOT an option.

you sure will have a mondial audience for your solution if you are abble to make it simple and secured

I would certainly interested.

Maybe you could make it an app (ha Ha)

But Apple had probably promised with Obama to collect customer's smart phone data and hand in to them.... I can't imagine Apple allow us to use such application.

snozdop wrote:

 

For those people here in the "tin-foil hat brigade", Apple have just published the document below, which may (or may not) help to allay your fears about the NSA, GCHQ or whoever getting to see your Contacts and Calendars:

 

Report on Government Information Requests

 

http://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/131105reportongovernmentinforequests2.pdf

 

It categorically refutes many of the more outrageous claims made by certain people in this thread.

Does anyone know where this report has gone. Click on the link and you find a "Hmm, the page you’re looking for can’t be found." message....It was definitely there on 5th Nov.....

Z001 wrote:

Does anyone know where this report has gone. Click on the link and you find a "Hmm, the page you’re looking for can’t be found." message....It was definitely there on 5th Nov.....

It doesn't matter where it has gone. Such a report, published by Apple itself, is worth nothing. Such data needs to to be verified by an independent NPO before it is of any use.

Re http://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/131105reportongovernmentinforequests2.pdf

Z001, I have an archived copy of that item if you're interested.

Incidentally, in a post I made back a bit I reffed two articles that indicated that 1. Apple uses Google and Microsoft servers for iCloud and 2. Google and Yahoo had their fibre links hacked by the feds and as we all know Microsoft gave the feds a backdoor into their servers long ago.

Why can't Apple deal with this the way they've dealt with the Pages hassle; respond to users and fix it.

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Does nobody understand how URLS work anymore? Apple made a version update!

Open http://www.apple.com/pr/

Click the link:

11/05/2013 Report on Government Information Requests

Or look at:

http://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/131105reportongovinforequests3.pdf

Now all you conspiracy theorists go diff the PDF's & see what changed.

Thanks all, that will do.

....your last point made me curious, sadly no time....

Aside from Apple using Microsoft and Amazon's servers, let's not forget that email you may have received in July...

Just add this phrase "we have not been able to rule out the possibility that some of your iCloud information may have been accessed"

If you're on Mavericks, and a conspiracy theorist, you'll proabably want to delete:

/System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.NSADoubleAgent.plist

Just joking that file doesn't exist. Or does it!?!?

HaxOr,

if you want me to help you to implement this thing (I myself am a java developer), please drop me a note.

Best regards

Keksi

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Oh boy this just gets better and better! A Java based solution using copywritten Apple system components. Stand by for the next chapter, folks. ;-)

Yours in anticipation

Pete

In all reality, no electronic data is completely secure.  Especially

if that data is communicated to others who may be very cavalier

in their approach to security.

So for those in such fear of their data here are some suggestions:

Phone:

Cannot be traced back to you, unless you use credit card.

Contacts:

Calendar:

Nah, your solution is too skeuomorphic.

First time I have felt the need to post on here.

Removing the option to sync over USB and forcing iCloud is completely unacceptable.

Im hoping Apple will come to there senses and reinstate this essential software.

I have used the customer feedback form and signed the petition.

I heard Obama quit using mac because he is not allowed to upload his personal information online.