Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy

Re:Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy by pvnick on Monday June 17, 2013 @04:26AM (#5892054)

>gone unnoticed by tens of thousands of security professionals for several years

I like that you seem to be making an honest assessment of the program but I really insist that you check this [1] out to see a few whistleblowers who have tried to bring attention to this, only to be rewarded with federal lawsuits. This has created a climate of fear where people ask "Is it really worth it? Or should I continue collecting my 6-digit paycheck and live in Hawaii?"

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowd...

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Re:Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy by quaunaut on Monday June 17, 2013 @04:31AM (#5892079)

The thing is, those are all NSA folks. The tens of thousands of security professionals I'm talking about is everyone outside the NSA.

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Re:Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy by amirmc on Monday June 17, 2013 @08:13AM (#5892696)

Stuxnet/Flame were things put out into the 'wild'. The recent stories are of large-scale dragnets sucking information in. Why should security professionals (outside the entity itself), ever know of it?

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Re:Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy by lancewiggs on Monday June 17, 2013 @07:29AM (#5892545)

Nobody is talking right? Any one of those security professionals that somehow gets in the know has smartly kept their head down.

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