Apple plans to change its Hide My Email privacy feature that could make it less effective
Apple plans to change its Hide My Email privacy feature that could make it less effective
苹果计划调整“隐藏邮件”隐私功能，或使其效力大打折扣
Apple’s plan to change a privacy feature that lets paying customers hide their real email addresses when creating online accounts could make it easier for apps and websites to block anonymous sign-ups. 苹果公司计划调整一项隐私功能，该功能允许付费用户在创建在线账户时隐藏其真实电子邮件地址。此举可能会让应用程序和网站更容易拦截匿名注册。
Apple’s Hide My Email is an iCloud+ feature that generates anonymous email addresses under the @icloud.com domain, which then forward messages to a person’s real email address. 苹果的“隐藏邮件”（Hide My Email）是 iCloud+ 的一项功能，它能生成以 @icloud.com 为域名的匿名电子邮件地址，并将收到的邮件转发至用户的真实邮箱。
The reason these privately generated email addresses work is because they cannot be distinguished from regular Apple users, whose email addresses also use the @icloud.com domain. 这些私密生成的邮箱地址之所以有效，是因为它们与普通苹果用户的邮箱地址（同样使用 @icloud.com 域名）无法区分。
Apple said in a note to developers on Monday that in the coming weeks the company will move its anonymously generated email addresses to @private.icloud.com, effectively making it easier for apps and websites to know that an email address is private and block users from signing up. 苹果周一在给开发者的一份说明中表示，在未来几周内，公司将把匿名生成的邮箱地址迁移至 @private.icloud.com 域名下。这实际上让应用程序和网站更容易识别出这是私密邮箱地址，从而阻止用户进行注册。
Existing addresses will continue to function and forward mail without interruption, Apple said in the note to developers. The company added that app and email providers would have to update their filtering to ensure that emails to customers who rely on the feature continue to go through. 苹果在说明中表示，现有的地址将继续正常工作并转发邮件，不会受到影响。该公司补充称，应用程序和电子邮件服务提供商需要更新其过滤机制，以确保依赖此功能的用户能够正常接收邮件。
Several Apple users on Reddit criticized the change to the email domain, saying it would make it more difficult to use the service. Apple did not respond to a request for comment from TechCrunch about the change, or explain why it made the change. Reddit 上的多位苹果用户对这一域名变更提出了批评，称这会增加使用该服务的难度。苹果未回应 TechCrunch 就此次变更提出的置评请求，也未解释做出此项调整的原因。
Earlier this year, TechCrunch reported that Apple turned over the real account information of a user who generated an anonymized email address using Hide My Email to send an allegedly threatening email to the girlfriend of the FBI director Kash Patel. 今年早些时候，TechCrunch 曾报道称，一名用户利用“隐藏邮件”功能生成匿名地址，向 FBI 局长卡什·帕特尔（Kash Patel）的女友发送了涉嫌威胁的邮件，苹果随后向有关部门移交了该用户的真实账户信息。
The Trump administration has made efforts over the past year to unmask anonymous accounts, including those of Trump’s critics, by using subpoenas to demand that tech companies turn over information about their users. 过去一年里，特朗普政府一直试图通过传票要求科技公司移交用户信息，以此来揭露匿名账户的真实身份，其中包括特朗普批评者的账户。