Re:Apple's desensitisation of people to fundamental security...
by fulafel on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:34AM
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> If you're buying Apple products and asking for support from them, you're implicitly trusting them anyway.
Trust is not binary or one-dimensional. You have no choice[1] but to place some hope in them working in alignment with your interests when the build the product, but it doesn't mean you should be careless about retaining some control in the process when doing business with their retail staff. Their staff is human and heterogenous, and you know there are more levels of QA in the phone production process than in the customer service,
and customer service employees have much lower risks of getting caught & much less to lose career-wise than iOS engineers if they violate your privacy.
People complain about Facebook and Windows 10 too. "You're implicitly trusting Facebook/Microsoft anyway" is not really true there either, you're just tolerating their privacy behaviour in exchange for value, and hoping to escpe harm.
[1] If you want a smartphone, that is (the competition is worse)
Trust is not binary or one-dimensional. You have no choice[1] but to place some hope in them working in alignment with your interests when the build the product, but it doesn't mean you should be careless about retaining some control in the process when doing business with their retail staff. Their staff is human and heterogenous, and you know there are more levels of QA in the phone production process than in the customer service, and customer service employees have much lower risks of getting caught & much less to lose career-wise than iOS engineers if they violate your privacy.
People complain about Facebook and Windows 10 too. "You're implicitly trusting Facebook/Microsoft anyway" is not really true there either, you're just tolerating their privacy behaviour in exchange for value, and hoping to escpe harm.
[1] If you want a smartphone, that is (the competition is worse)