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This non-targetability property raises the cost and visibility of attacks: an adversary cannot surgically target an individual user's data without triggering a system-wide attack, which is harder to conduct covertly.
Interpretive note: The clause uses 'should not be able to,' which is a normative design goal rather than an absolute guarantee. The distinction between a design requirement and a verified technical property is not resolved in the excerpt.
Apple Intelligence's design is intended to ensure that your personal data cannot be singled out for compromise without requiring an attacker to mount a broad, system-wide attack.
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"An attacker should not be able to attempt to compromise personal data that belongs to specific, targeted PCC users without attempting a broad compromise of the entire PCC system.Excerpt from Apple Intelligence's Apple Private Cloud Compute Security Guide
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This non-targetability property raises the cost and visibility of attacks: an adversary cannot surgically target an individual user's data without triggering a system-wide attack, which is harder to conduct covertly.
Apple Intelligence's design is intended to ensure that your personal data cannot be singled out for compromise without requiring an attacker to mount a broad, system-wide attack.
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