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Re:iOS 12 uses Lua code downloaded from Apple's servers by xoa on Monday August 06, 2018 @03:55PM (#17701158)
What. Apple has no issues trusting Apple 100% completely, nor do any of their users. Or more specifically, Apple itself is simply an inseparable part of the core trust foundation since they control the entire stack of hardware, firmware and software. You calling this "hypocritical BS" is just nonsense, it's like acting shocked that Apple doesn't allow any random developer to issue microcode processor updates even though Apple could. Of course Apple can, there is no equality there. Apple develops private code and dogfoods it before making it public. Any platform developer by definition has to do low level stuff as part of making higher level stuff. This is not difficult.

"Hypocrisy" gets thrown around way too often on the Internet, and if you do so you are basically always wrong, either because it's not actually hypocrisy at all (the word is not a synonym for "anything I don't like") or because it's a meaningless thing to say anyway vs more substantive complaints.

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Re:iOS 12 uses Lua code downloaded from Apple's servers by insidegui on Monday August 06, 2018 @04:05PM (#17701244)
It's also worth noting that the bundle that includes the Lua code is signed and its signature gets verified by the OS before running.
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Re:iOS 12 uses Lua code downloaded from Apple's servers by denzil_correa on Monday August 06, 2018 @06:30PM (#17702350)
> "Hypocrisy" gets thrown around way too often on the Internet, and if you do so you are basically always wrong, either because it's not actually hypocrisy at all (the word is not a synonym for "anything I don't like") or because it's a meaningless thing to say anyway vs more substantive complaints.

Another thing - hypocrisy has no bearing on the conclusion of the argument. You can be a hypocrite and be logically correct. OTOH, you can be far away from a hypocrite and be wrong.

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