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A comment on Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments. Parent comment

Re:Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments by Mindwipe on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @07:03AM (#26645732)
As opposed to not sideloading which... does exactly the same thing.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/03/16/apple-to-offer-governme...

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Re:Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments by brorfred on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @04:21PM (#26652609)
Not at all. I read that story as the suggested apps being on the AppStore and having gone through the normal vetting by Apple. If so, then the government doesn’t have access to any more backdoors than already potentially exists in for example WeChat or Alipay.
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