Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
by IntelMiner on Thursday October 03, 2019 @04:00AM
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One has to wonder though. Apple refused to provide the FBI a backdoor, which people speculated would be due to setting a precedent for Apple to make these backdoors standard
How likely is it that everything Apple sells in China is backdoored as mandated by the CCP?
Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
by kop316 on Thursday October 03, 2019 @07:43AM
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Very likely:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
They allow a Chinese company to manage iCloud data.
Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
by chillydawg on Thursday October 03, 2019 @04:04AM
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It's clearly 100%.
Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
by asxd on Thursday October 03, 2019 @04:09AM
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What about the infamous browser attack publicized by Google’s project zero that seemed to be perpetrated by the Chinese government in order to target the Uighur Muslims? If true that would seem to imply the CCP did not in fact have backdoors already right?
Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
by SSLy on Thursday October 03, 2019 @04:26AM
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It was targeting the Diaspora, which was using non-China models.
Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
by asxd on Thursday October 03, 2019 @05:05AM
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Ah, interesting, "Diaspora" meaning Uighurs outside of China? In that case though, what evidence is there that it was geographically targeted? My understanding was that the attack apparently focused on websites likely to be visited by Uighurs, so how would we know what the geographical target was?
Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
by lern_too_spel on Thursday October 03, 2019 @10:01AM
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The targeted websites are blocked in China. They are only accessible outside of China.
Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
by asxd on Thursday October 03, 2019 @12:56PM
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Thanks for clarifying, I didn’t realize that!
Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
by greggman2 on Thursday October 03, 2019 @08:13AM
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The FBI doesn't have the ability to prevent Apple from selling phones in the USA. There is no law I know of that would allow the FBI to do that. China does have the ability to prevent Apple from selling phones in China.
Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
by tomatotomato37 on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:56AM
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The FBI doesn't have the direct ability, but they do have the ear of multiple powerful people who can move policy & trade law around to apple's disadvantage. They did just lose multiple requested tariff exemptions in the trade war.
Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store
by ryanmercer on Thursday October 03, 2019 @10:49AM
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Are you suggesting a Federal law enforcement organization, that maintains files on certain private individuals, would collectively come together to approach politicians to do blacklist a company?
Because that would be illegal on about 97 levels. Right out of the gate it would be seen as potential blackmail.
This may be more a reflection on the what flex the residing government provides for a company in a given country rather than the companies appetite to stand up for their opinion though.