This is a claim which should require extraordinary evidence, since Apple has very publicly resisted pressure to build technology at the government’s behest in the past.
It’s now common knowledge (as mentioned in the article) that Apple refrained from adding a feature at the government’s behest in the past. It’s a fine line between not adding a feature they don’t like and adding a feature they do.
Therein lies a problem. Most people would agree that a good predictor what people will do is what they have done in the past. If you read through some of the stories ( those of Snowden come to mind ), some declassified information over the course of the past few decades, a pattern emerges.
There is no evidence, either because it does not exist or because it is hidden. The best we have is inference and whistleblowers.
That said, I genuinely think we are not being tinfoil enough these days. And that is based only on what we know ( or at least avg. citizen should know ) was already done in the past.
Perhaps. However Apple has since released two security updates to iOS but has not patched the iMessage flaw that allows Pegasus software to spy on thousands (perhaps millions) of iphones.
What are they waiting for? Hmm perhaps getting something else in place first.
> since Apple has very publicly resisted pressure to build technology at the government’s behest in the past.
And they've also not done that. When Jobs died Apple promptly bent the knee and joined up to PRISM.
Very publicly resisted? Nope. They went along, very quietly (it was Yahoo that tried to fight back). We only found out about Apple having joined up thanks to the man that wrote this article.
How many human rights atrocities does Apple get to partake in before their credibility is shot, such that the burden is put on them instead, of proving - in such circumstances as this one - that they're not commiting more atrocities.
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This is a claim which should require extraordinary evidence, since Apple has very publicly resisted pressure to build technology at the government’s behest in the past.
It’s now common knowledge (as mentioned in the article) that Apple refrained from adding a feature at the government’s behest in the past. It’s a fine line between not adding a feature they don’t like and adding a feature they do.
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Therein lies a problem. Most people would agree that a good predictor what people will do is what they have done in the past. If you read through some of the stories ( those of Snowden come to mind ), some declassified information over the course of the past few decades, a pattern emerges.
There is no evidence, either because it does not exist or because it is hidden. The best we have is inference and whistleblowers.
That said, I genuinely think we are not being tinfoil enough these days. And that is based only on what we know ( or at least avg. citizen should know ) was already done in the past.
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Perhaps. However Apple has since released two security updates to iOS but has not patched the iMessage flaw that allows Pegasus software to spy on thousands (perhaps millions) of iphones.
What are they waiting for? Hmm perhaps getting something else in place first.
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> since Apple has very publicly resisted pressure to build technology at the government’s behest in the past.
And they've also not done that. When Jobs died Apple promptly bent the knee and joined up to PRISM.
Very publicly resisted? Nope. They went along, very quietly (it was Yahoo that tried to fight back). We only found out about Apple having joined up thanks to the man that wrote this article.
How many human rights atrocities does Apple get to partake in before their credibility is shot, such that the burden is put on them instead, of proving - in such circumstances as this one - that they're not commiting more atrocities.