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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by girvo on Thursday October 03, 2019 @05:52PM (#21152633)
Do they? Shit, I thought that they’d set things up that sharing the key was extremely difficult if not impossible without access to the device? That’s disappointing if true, is there a good article on this?
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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by eitland on Friday October 04, 2019 @06:46AM (#21156414)
AFAIK this is only true for Chinese citizens or people who bought their phone in China or something but it is still scary.
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Re:Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for en... by bduerst on Friday October 04, 2019 @02:53PM (#21160729)
Yep, Chinese users only. The odd part is that the internet blew up at Google for even proposing it and later cancelling it with project Dragonfly (also only for Chinese users), but Apple quietly went ahead and just did it without many people noticing.
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