Comment by nomilk
1 day ago
Wow - how sad. To think the 2nd highest scoring post ever on hacker news is Apple's 2016 A Message to Our Customers. A display of intelligence, morality and courage under great pressure: https://hn.algolia.com
How things have changed.
> In a statement Apple said it was "gravely disappointed"
So are we, Apple. So are we.
Apple did the right thing.
I would much rather they were transparent, so that people can move services, rather than build a backdoor in secret, to appease the far-left Labour government.
Oh stop with "far left" nonsense, none of our main political parties are much further than slightly left or right of centrist.
Building a backdoor and telling us is better than building a backdoor and not telling us, but not building a backdoor at all is ideal.