After the tiny teaser, "without the cloud", there's not a single mention of how privacy might improve in that whole quote.

A PIN is a password.

... and all of the excitement this "feature" has caused in major CPU architectures? It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

When I first read the post title, I assumed it was a breach announcement. Editors should be more careful.

This intra-governmental discussion should have happened long ago, before the frequencies were sold.

As for consumer RF on planes, I recall years ago a coworker pointing out that the early Wi-Fi PDAs we were using had two interesting features: 1) no OFF button (they only suspended); and 2) their calendar apps dutifully woke up the device right at take-off to remind you of the flight you'd scheduled.

For the simple reason that the government (FAA) regulates aviation and the government (FCC) also sold the frequencies. One hand doesn't know what the other hand is doing. Even if that's often a tautology in this government, we still should never have reached this point.

Fortunately, it wasn't Ice 9, or we wouldn't be reading this...

Closer: "Metastasis".

The operative words are:

If legislators wanted something different, then they would have enacted different legislation. They didn't. If they don't like the results, then they can do their jobs and enact different legislation. But they, and their surrogates the administrative bodies that implement legislation, don't get to whine until they do so.

This has been going on in many industries for a long time. Another frustrating case is LED light bulbs that retain the same SKU and even model number, but that have slightly different color and lumens (even the box says so, while retaining the same SKU). Try replacing that one burned out bulb (long before its fabled long LED lifetime, I might add) in a chandelier, and the new one stands out like a sore thumb.

As suggestive as this report may be, each and every one of these tests would have to be performed on the actual released version of Apple's feature to have any validity for the claims being made. Based on Apple's announcements, this isn't a final released version. What this report does show is that there is already a committed adversarial network that is determined to find any such weaknesses and expose them.

Sorry, I was referring to the OP:

Maybe I still don't understand.

This is downwind; jibing?

Among other things, macOS will need to change its icon for a Windows server. An industry-wide waste of time, not just MS.

Given the general, ongoing problems with security in embedded medical devices, I wonder whether this says at least as much about medical device design as it does about MagSafe design.