Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Apple Silicon M1 Chip in MacBook Air Outperforms High-End 16-Inch MacBook Pro and All iOS Devices Date: 30 Nov 2020 17:41:57 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <1qYvH.33104$Uz.9966@fx46.iad> <1S8wH.202147$oL7.68337@fx06.iad> <6ATwH.188636$2j.177426@fx38.iad> <291120201715311293%nospam@nospam.invalid> X-Trace: individual.net wMf0E80NR61iabRUSZsW5AVemB4Gh0tt0Ew/bIwEn5p5/loIJV Cancel-Lock: sha1:1bgtL58bCfyxZfKAIYqEXViWI2k= X-No-Archive: Yes MMail-Copies-To: nobody X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:135542 On 2020-11-30, Alan Baker wrote: > On 2020-11-30 2:03 a.m., JF Mezei wrote: >> On 2020-11-30 03:10, Alan Baker wrote: >> >>> Cite please. >> >> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208344 >> >> There was more obvious one I had seen, but since your purpose in life is >> just to insult me, there is no reason for me to waste my time on you. > > I can see why you snipped your own earlier statement: > >>>> I stumbled on a note from Apple that for T2 equipped Macs, you you need >>>> external backups. I merely related that here. > > And then we see what the article actually says: > > 'Always back up your content to a secure external drive or other secure > backup location so that you can restore it, if necessary.' > > So the point is not the externality. That's a given. > > What they're discussing is need to use a SECURE backup if you want to > maintain your security; that backing up to an insecure location defeats > the whole purpose. > > What they are NOT doing is drawing any relationship between a T2 chip > and some special need to do your backups externally because you have a > machine with one. > > You lose. He excels at it. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR