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Re:Greg Joswiak replaces Phil Schiller as head of Apple mark... by ricardobeat on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:26PM (#24055165)
> the only thing keeping your secure and private is Apple's pinky promise

Indeed, that's what I meant in the last paragraph. It also means an open source, verified client, with fully secure encryption, is still powerless against the OS capturing keystrokes. You have to rely on that pinky promise either way unless you control the hardware.

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Re:Greg Joswiak replaces Phil Schiller as head of Apple mark... by Andrew_nenakhov on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:59PM (#24055413)
That's true, that's why people who are _really_ paranoid buy special purged phones and flash their own builds of an OS. A friend of mine had a rather successful business selling people such phones.
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