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Re:Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five E... by rgbswan on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:37AM (#42077552)
Generally the correct way to think about news like this, I believe.

Like when Apple pretended to not work with the agencies when Apple hardware needed to be unlocked ...

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Re:Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five E... by Noble6 on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:46AM (#42077640)
Are you talking about the California shooting in 2015, where the FBI asked Apple to decrypt the phone? The way I recall it being resolved was some contractor decrypted it after Apple refused to
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Re:Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five E... by ghostpepper on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:56AM (#42077756)
it was Mark Dowd's firm, Azimuth Security - not just some contractor, he literally wrote the book on memory safety vulnerabilities
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Re:Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five E... by SoftTalker on Thursday November 07, 2024 @11:04AM (#42077847)
> some contractor decrypted it after Apple refused to

Or that was the story they all agreed to tell.

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Re:Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five E... by fsflover on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:47AM (#42077658)
And before that, Snowden leaks suggested that Apple worked with NSA.
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