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Re:Forget iPhone X–Apple's Best Product Is Its Privacy Stance by astral303 on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @12:21PM (#15602760)
It is not true that Tim Cook struck a deal with the NSA. Nor is it true that Apple has worked with the NSA for PRISM.

NSA likely exploited the SSL vulnerability in iOS 6.0 (released Sept 2012, NSA added Apple Oct 2012) and got access to snoop on Apple's data.

After pulling the phrase "participate knowingly" out of thin air, Washington Post was forced to walk back that statement:

"Hours after the news broke, and every company bar PalTalk and AOL denied any knowledge of the program and allegations of their involvement, the Post has changed its stance. The phrase “participate knowingly” has been removed from the article, a new passage suggests the firms were unaware of PRISM"

https://thenextweb.com/us/2013/06/07/wapost-backtracks-on-cl...

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Re:Forget iPhone X–Apple's Best Product Is Its Privacy Stance by hellcow on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @04:54PM (#15605395)
How did you arrive at the conclusion that it was an SSL vulnerability that constituted inclusion in PRISM? There are zero-days discovered all the time.

Are you really suggesting that prior to Sept 2012 there were no critical zero-day vulnerabilities to which the NSA had access? Surely by your reasoning, Apple should have been included in PRISM years prior. And yet, it wasn't until after Steve Jobs died that Apple began to participate.

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Re:Forget iPhone X–Apple's Best Product Is Its Privacy Stance by jrs95 on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @01:24PM (#15603472)
That it's essentially legal for "the intelligence community" to do this sort of thing is insane.
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