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Re:IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted ... by bigohms on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @12:34PM (#2467271)
I found the comparison was very apropos to the context and useful. Call me simplistic, but I'm glad it was cast and totally not inflamed (save for my original inflammation towards Apple).
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Re:IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted ... by edw on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @01:22PM (#2467490)
It's not apropos. Can you be raped by your vibrator or your blow up doll? This is about a device passively logging data, not a moral agent doing something to you.

Show me the person that Apple has hurt. The only people I've been reading about here taking actions are law enforcement officials, people in black helicopters, and betrayed lovers.

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Re:IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted ... by pavel_lishin on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @02:36PM (#2467793)
What you view as a device passively logging data, others may view as a company actively designing a device that logs data.
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Re:IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted ... by burgerbrain on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @02:24PM (#2467741)
"Can you be raped by your vibrator or your blow up doll?"

If either of those has sex with me without my consent, then yes. I would call that rape. Who in their right mind wouldn't?

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Re:IPhones and 3G iPads log your location in an unencrypted ... by bigohms on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @11:26PM (#2469336)
Exactly. Count me as one feeling Apple's rep is severely damaged. The notion that this device stores gigs of personal data (without my prior knowledge) and has been transmitting it back to Apple, somehow this is okay with you? Not I guy, not I.

More people should know.

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