Apple’s device surveillance plan is a threat to user privacy

Re:Apple’s device surveillance plan is a threat to user priv... by encryptluks2 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @05:38PM (#28227514)

There business model has always been a threat to user privacy and press freedom, many people were just okay with it cause Apple told them otherwise. Open source is the only model where you can verify though, and so Apple was about blind trust and never about privacy.

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Re:Apple’s device surveillance plan is a threat to user priv... by npteljes on Thursday August 19, 2021 @04:55AM (#28231730)

I agree, this is what's to be expected when people rely on proprietary and other people's computers. Stallman's essays, among others, depicted scenarios like this for ages. But people don't like to miss the latest shiny, the convenience of the smart phone tech, so, here we are. They also don't like a told-you-so.

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Re:Apple’s device surveillance plan is a threat to user priv... by 99mans on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @06:11PM (#28227793)

Why is this being downvoted? Depressing to see that open source software is not respected here.

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Re:Apple’s device surveillance plan is a threat to user priv... by sandworm101 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @06:38PM (#28228042)

People downvote things that make them angry. The things that make people most angry are those things that strike closest to home. An incorrect or unacceptable comment will be downvoted and commented on, even reported. A perfectly valid and true statement, one that is so true that it scares people, will be silently downvoted. It is a form of denial, an attempt to remove a painful truth.

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