Apple states it will publicly publish the software running on PCC servers along with a signed inventory of components and a log of every software version deployed, so that independent researchers can verify what is actually running on the system.
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This provision creates a publicly auditable, cryptographically signed record of the software running on PCC nodes, which is the primary mechanism by which the other privacy guarantees in this document can be independently verified rather than accepted on Apple's word alone.
The document states that Apple publishes the PCC server software, a signed Software Bill of Materials, and a transparency log to a public repository accessible to security researchers, enabling independent verification of the privacy properties that protect user data during Apple Intelligence cloud processing.
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"Verifiable transparency. Security and privacy guarantees are meaningless if the software enforcing them isn't trustworthy. For Apple Intelligence, security researchers need to be able to verify these guarantees. Apple must make the software images that run in PCC publicly available for research, with a signed Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) so that the software can be verified and cross-referenced with the Apple Platform Security guide. Additionally, Apple must publish a transparency log that records every software version released to PCC nodes, so that researchers can verify the history of software deployed to the system.Excerpt from Apple Intelligence's Apple Private Cloud Compute Security Guide
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This provision creates a publicly auditable, cryptographically signed record of the software running on PCC nodes, which is the primary mechanism by which the other privacy guarantees in this document can be independently verified rather than accepted on Apple's word alone.
The document states that Apple publishes the PCC server software, a signed Software Bill of Materials, and a transparency log to a public repository accessible to security researchers, enabling independent verification of the privacy properties that protect user data during Apple Intelligence cloud processing.
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