Comment by politelemon
5 hours ago
The major OS vendors (apple, google, ms) are complicit in data turnover and have been for over ten years now. It has been reported multiple times so I'm struggling to see the angle being projected here. This feels like click harvesting got the HN "Microsoft bad" crowd.
The segment of the population that is the target of political vindictiveness from the FBI seems to have changed somewhat with this administration so it makes sense to remind people of the vulnerabilities from time to time.
The San Bernardino iPhone case proves that Apple is very much so not complicit.
The Apple that offers gold statues to authoritarian regimes would certainly behave differently.
People also forget how they kind of always played ball in similar governments.
This was a decade ago, before the big tech went to brown nose Trump on live TV. We live in different reality nowadays. Apple doesn't even market their encryption and safety anymore, like they did on massive billboards all over the world.
They've only done more since 2016.
Lockdown mode: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120
Advanced Data Protection for iCloud: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756
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