Apple Intelligence's servers are basic on purpose

According to a new interview featuring senior software vice president Craig Federighi with Wired, the privacy trait of the Private Cloud Compute servers used for Apple Intelligence is there partly because the servers are basic on purpose.

According to him, the servers don't even have data-storing SSDs/hard drives or any other ways for reboots to not wipe out all data (that means random encryption keys created every reboot, the Secure Enclave feature for encryption keys that's also present in M-series chips and every iPhone chip since the A17 Pro, and the feature of being cryptographically insurmountable). Also, requests are deleted forever from the servers right when they reach your device, and tools that usually are weak spots where hackers can flood in aren't in the protected area, so nothing to worry about in hacking (this is Apple's solution to the inability of using end-to-end encryption in servers). Finally, if you don't trust Apple on this, you can check yourself (if you understand code, of course), and this counts for every single server: any new ones are automatically logged. Left unmentioned is two other crucial features: the fact that even if the servers are hacked, the hacker just can't access personal data individually and the fact that is just not possible to leak personal data with Private Cloud Compute (PCC).

By Leo