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A comment on Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life. Parent comment

Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by forgingahead on Thursday August 05, 2021 @10:33PM (#28082658)
This can happen only because whenever any slippery-slope action was taken previously, there is an army of apologists and "explainers" who rush to "correct" your instinctive aversion to these changes. It's always the same - the initial comment is seemingly kind, yet with an underlying menace, and if you continue to express opposition, they change tack to being extremely aggressive and rude.

See the comment threads around this topic, and look back to other related events (notably the tech giants censoring people "for the betterment of society" in the past 12 months).

Boiling a frog may happen slowly, but the water continues to heat up even if we pretend it doesn't. Very disappointed with this action by Apple.

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Re:Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens ... by raxxorrax on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:47AM (#28084031)
This is typical obedient behavior. Some abused spouses get through lengths to come up with excuses for their partners. Since I don't own an iOS device, I don't really care about this specific instance.

But I don't want these people normalizing deep surveillance and fear that I have to get rid of my OSX devices when this trend continues.

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