According to a new report, for years, Apple has been trying to develop an internal solution to handle the sheer amount of data that it requires to keep services like iTunes, iMessage, Apple Music and the App Store up and running smoothly. It’s said that the company continues to work to achieve this goal and that it’s also designing its own secure servers to avoid the possibility of snooping.
The report from The Information claims that Apple is aware of the fact that third-party and off-the-shelf hardware can be compromised to allow hackers or even government agencies to access data.
Apparently the company has become so paranoid about its data being snooped on that it has started to take photographs of motherboards and assigning labels to each chip’s function so if a board turns up with an additional chip that wasn’t in the original design it will immediately know that something is out of place.
Apple can really only have complete peace of mind when it developers the entire secure hardware and software system itself, that includes designing and manufacturing chips and boards itself so as to reduce its reliance on companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon who have robust cloud solutions.
Time and again Apple has reiterated its commitment to user privacy and its fight against the FBI was largely based on the premise that the company couldn’t set a precedent in which it creates a backdoor for its own device to allow the government to take data from a locked device.
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