Comment by TheRealDunkirk
5 years ago
Relatedly, someone on the blog posted a comment that it might be more effective to report him to Apple than to turn a credible death threat over to law enforcement! Comments here seem acknowledge that he's delusional, but he may very well have lost a huge contract. He claims he's lost family, friends, house, and can't go back to his home country. What would Apple's move be? To lock him out without warning or due process of any sort. I don't know about any of you, but I KNOW how devastating it would be to suddenly be locked out of MY iCloud account. Do we really think that getting Apple to deplatform him will somehow assuage his stated murderous intent?! What kind of cyberpunk megacorp police state future are we advocating for here? No, the answer is to report this to local LEO and the FBI, let THEM deal with Apple to get his details, and handle whatever comes next.
I wonder what the market is for a sort of super-it lawyer service, that affords the protections of legal counsel in order to secure your data across multiple platforms and protect you from deplatforming as you describe, where they can take YOUR data, and is protected by legal counsel so that it generally can't be deplatformed by governmental entities.
Encryption has a sort of brutal effectiveness at doing this if you distribute copies of your data, but it is hard to maintain and has exposure in extreme events with your health.
Encryption + distributed data + legal protections from counsel could be an offering. It might be a "big fish" service though.