Re:iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents ev...
by dheera on Thursday June 25, 2020 @02:36AM
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> Eventually you have to trust someone.
Perhaps, but Apple is the last company I would trust. They work in a culture of secrecy and engineer for obscurity rather than transparency, and that does not make them trustable at all.
> Private companies are not under any moral obligation to open source their code
But I will give far more trust to those who do so, or at least the privacy-critical parts. With Android I need to trust no-one; I can modify things on the OS level that do not necessarily execute apps in the way those apps expect to be executed, and that is the ultimate privacy guarantee.
I own the hardware, so how my hardware runs software should be my choice; the entire set of instructions and APIs for creating phone apps is merely a suggestion for how the OS should execute apps, and how a stock OS executes apps, but does not necessarily reflect how I choose to have my hardware execute them.
Perhaps, but Apple is the last company I would trust. They work in a culture of secrecy and engineer for obscurity rather than transparency, and that does not make them trustable at all.
> Private companies are not under any moral obligation to open source their code
But I will give far more trust to those who do so, or at least the privacy-critical parts. With Android I need to trust no-one; I can modify things on the OS level that do not necessarily execute apps in the way those apps expect to be executed, and that is the ultimate privacy guarantee.
I own the hardware, so how my hardware runs software should be my choice; the entire set of instructions and APIs for creating phone apps is merely a suggestion for how the OS should execute apps, and how a stock OS executes apps, but does not necessarily reflect how I choose to have my hardware execute them.