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Re:Apple and Russia Face Off Over Telegram on App Store by wpdev_63 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @08:40AM (#17195824)
It's like the ceo[0] of the world's most profitable company lying[1] to every person in america about their most intimate device they own.

I don't care what you say. I don't believe for a second that vault 7 is an exploit and not a built in backdoor.

[0]:https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/ [1]:https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/

EDIT - this is going to get downvoted to oblivion cause it goes against the grain but it is an opinion and people should at least be open to it. Especially with the fact that news[2] like this is coming out everyday.

[2]:https://www.eff.org/

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Re:Apple and Russia Face Off Over Telegram on App Store by ryanlol on Thursday May 31, 2018 @08:42AM (#17195831)
Uh, so what you’re saying is that you have no idea at all what “vault 7” is?
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Re:Apple and Russia Face Off Over Telegram on App Store by wpdev_63 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @08:48AM (#17195860)
If you read my link you would see that the fbi,cia, and nsa have "exploits" that they can be used to gain (root)access to iphones,android phones, samsung tvs etc. [hello george orwell]

I can't believe for a second that the government can merely send a magic packet to an iphone and have it exploited as it does. It must a built in backdoor they can only access or else alot of other people would have it as well.

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Re:Apple and Russia Face Off Over Telegram on App Store by saagarjha on Thursday May 31, 2018 @09:25AM (#17196083)
Essentially everything in that list affects old versions of iOS…
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Re:Apple and Russia Face Off Over Telegram on App Store by wpdev_63 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @09:49AM (#17196253)
Are you seriously doubting they still don't have that type of access?
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Re:Apple and Russia Face Off Over Telegram on App Store by saagarjha on Thursday May 31, 2018 @09:55AM (#17196305)
…yes?
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Re:Apple and Russia Face Off Over Telegram on App Store by wpdev_63 on Thursday May 31, 2018 @10:20AM (#17196477)
picks up magic eight ball "Will there be another leak of exploits for the latest version of ios in the next year" Shakes magic eight and revealing the answer to be "ARE YOU DAFT! YES!!!" "The magic eight has spoken"

putting aside hubris, take a look through eff.org and see for yourself. If you care enough about privacy and the future, take a look at fightforthefuture.org to see which candidates are funding these programs and the ones who are actively fighting the surveillance state.

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