Who is "we"?

Probably the folk upvoting my comment.

This is a false dichotomy. Completely trusting any single entity who doesn't really care about you (and only cares about extracting money from you) is riskier than trusting FLOSS, which is being constantly verified by independent actors.

That is not really how it works though. Look at the amount of limping, poorly implemented FLOSS software there is out there where the maintainers show no interest at all or there is no funding to support it. Look at the whole OpenSSL mess a while back.

I honestly prefer to pay a vendor who will (a) complete a product until it's usable (b) be motivated to maintain it because they are paid and (c) be motivated to maintain it because they are scared of the bad PR of not maintaining it.

Apple OSes are insecure by design to aid surveillance (sneak.berlin)

43 points by vitplister 4 months ago | 32 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37875370

Apple fined $8.5M for illegally collecting iPhone owners' data for ads (gizmodo.com)

334 points by nixcraft on Jan 8, 2023 | 134 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299433

Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments (jessesquires.com)

468 points by ig0r0 on March 31, 2021 | 291 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26644216

Apple reportedly dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020) (theverge.com)

425 points by samename on Jan 14, 2021 | 137 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25777207