Comment by TheCaptain4815
2 years ago
I'd disagree with this. Apple execs surely know if this information gets leaked they're losing 30% market cap in a single day, why would they risk something like that when administrations change every 4-8 years?
2 years ago
I'd disagree with this. Apple execs surely know if this information gets leaked they're losing 30% market cap in a single day, why would they risk something like that when administrations change every 4-8 years?
I think the charitable explanation here is that this was an undocumented debugging interface. Apple knew about it and did not disclose it in any publicly available material. The NSA almost certainly has access to Apple's source code and documentation. Just look at the Snowden leaks when it was disclosed that the NSA was mitming Google's DC to DC links. They already knew Google wasn't encrypting those links before they surreptitiously dug up the fiber and they already knew enough about the system architecture to make sense of that firehose of data. Clearly either through NSL or bribing some insiders, they already exfiltrated a bunch of internal documentation and source code. Why would Apple be any different?
I wouldn't expect them to have HSM keys or anything but a mirror of their VCS? Yeah the NSA probably has that.
Highly unlikely. Nobody cares.
What stock was crushed by Snowden revelations?
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/ seems you are wrong
Compare with minute 22:40 of the talk
As well as https://imgur.com/a/82JV7I9
Power is more important than profit. Those running the national security apparatus have been in power for 60 years. The fact that they still haven't released the documents on the JFK assassination evidences that they are still in power.
Eh.
Let’s say your old boss was embezzling and got away with it. Now you are the boss, and if you go public with it, not only are they out of power and likely nothing will happen, but all the freedom and flexibility you have in the same position is gone, and you or your friends have an island-problem you would rather not get into.
Maybe it’s just better to not rile up the shareholders.
People will call you a crank or a conspiracy theorist but that is only because they are afraid to think about the answers to those questions themselves. Its easier to pretend it couldn't happen.