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Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by Causality1 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:11PM (#19975107)
It was also a reminder that your phone is backdoored by Apple and they can do whatever they please with it and your files. But they never would. But they can.
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Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by sneak on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:14PM (#19975129)
There is a pretty big difference between something that autodownloads a list retrieved from a database-backed web service and remote code execution (a “backdoor”).
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Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by Causality1 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:09PM (#19975636)
OS updates are remote code execution. We trust them because it's in the best financial interest of the company not to abuse them.
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Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by m463 on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @07:02PM (#19976032)
You would think, but that doesn't correlate with the behavior of Microsoft.
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Re:CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016) by sneak on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @07:58PM (#19976380)
OS updates, if not automatic, do not remotely execute code.
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