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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by tshaddox on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:22PM (#28081787)
The problem with the “there’s no way to predict how this will evolve” argument is that it would apply equally as well years before this was announced, and to literally anything that Apple could theoretically do with software on iPhones.
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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by m4rtink on Thursday August 05, 2021 @10:45PM (#28082748)
Well it does - people have been pointing out downfalls of the walled garden, locked boot loaders and proprietary everything on "iDevices" for years, pointing to scenarios similar to the one unfolding right now.
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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by ElFitz on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:49AM (#28085073)
That’s the problem with closed-source software in general, and one that can be remotely updated in particular.

And I am writing that as a (now formerly?) happy iPhone user. It’s just that I don’t trust it or Apple as much anymore.

And although there is no way of predicting with certainty how it will evolve, most past successful similar processes and systems usually went down the anti-terrorism & copyright enforcement roads.

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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by tremon on Friday August 06, 2021 @06:37AM (#28085356)
Indeed. That's why some people have been consistently arguing against proprietary software and against locked-down platforms for decades.
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