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Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store by dTal on Thursday October 03, 2019 @08:13AM (#21146083)
You are - for now. But, unless you've gone very far out of your way, Microsoft and Google (respectively) have root on those systems. You could open your laptop tomorrow and find that your activist software has been uninstalled and the police informed of your location.

Don't be fooled - those systems do not recognize you as ultimate master.

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Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store by lghh on Thursday October 03, 2019 @12:54PM (#21149081)
Why could this also not happen with free software? Unless you read the code in every patch of every piece of software you use and software your software uses, what prevents this from happening?
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Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store by wrycoder on Thursday October 03, 2019 @01:07PM (#21149229)
Revert to backup, fix the problem or delete the application altogether.
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Re:Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store by lghh on Friday October 04, 2019 @12:47PM (#21159468)
How is this different than closed source?
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