Re:New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill
by Dracophoenix on Friday June 11, 2021 @03:01PM
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It's only a good argument if you assume that Apple is fundamentally interested in consumer security. It isn't. Apple is fundamentally interested in control. Security, however Apple defines it, is a chosen means to the extent that is fulfills the company's primary goal.
That's not to say that Apple should behave like a charitable force. A company's goals and decisions are its own prerogative. But as we've seen with the revelations of the Epic trial, the Darth Vader-style rule changes, updates that interfere with the basic operation of the device, etc., you're not just buying into a remotely managed system like a remote desktop at a colocation center. You're buying into the blackbox of Apple's present and future business decisions whether that suits your needs or not.
Should security no longer justify the cost to Apple, they'll contort the meaning of the word to suit their ends just like Tim Cook has done to the word "equal" during his congressional hearing.
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Re:New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill
by sneak on Friday June 11, 2021 @03:04PM
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> You're buying into the blackbox of Apple's present and future business decisions whether whether that suits your needs or not.
You don't have to install updates.
Re:New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill
by Dracophoenix on Friday June 11, 2021 @03:23PM
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You can't downgrade/upgrade the OS to a specific version of an update after a fortnight or thereabouts. That's an artificial constraint applied by Apple. It's not even possible to do so offline with iTunes even if one has the IPSWs. If you check the /r/jailbreak subreddit, talented coders have to hack the SEP and build complicated, low-level-interacting software like futurestore in order to perform a semi-successful downgrade/upgrade.
Re:New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill
by Wowfunhappy on Friday June 11, 2021 @03:14PM
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iOS updates aren't forced, no.
However, if you install an update to try it out, or because you didn't realize that it would e.g. break 32bit support, you can never downgrade again (unless you happen to be within a two-week-ish period.)
Re:New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill
by Karunamon on Friday June 11, 2021 @03:52PM
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Technically, no, but you'll be repetitively bothered by modal popups until you do.
Re:New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill
by joshspankit on Friday June 11, 2021 @11:37PM
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As well: older versions have known exploits that you (as a locked-out user) are unable to patch.
Re:New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill
by Wowfunhappy on Saturday June 12, 2021 @09:13AM
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Right, whereas on macOS I literally patched an exploit myself a couple of months ago, because I could inject my own code. https://github.com/Wowfunhappy/Fix-Apple-Mail-CVE-2020-9922