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I continue to wonder why companies like GreyKey aren’t treated like hackers and arrested. Unless the NSA is fronting them, they are common criminals not a police force and should be treated as such. 

command_f said:

I prefer to think of this as keeping out the bad guys. In my book, in the UK, that doesn't include the security agencies. YMMV.

However, it's a Good Thing that Apple is doing this, the agencies should have (be given) different and better methods. Interestingly, the ex-head of GCHQ (UK's equivalent of NSA) is on record as opposing backdoors: he says they're technically difficult and and open to abuse (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/10/former_gchq_wades_into_encryption_debate/). About what has been said here in the past.

BTW The original story is here (but it may not be accessible outside the UK):https//www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-40554686/end-to-end-encryption-back-door-a-bad-idea

I'm glad you can trust your government to do what's best for law abiding citizens but this hasn't been the case in the US for a long time, if ever. This country was born on lack of trust of governments (remember 1776 and England?) and with the formation of the FBI with J Edgar Hoover at the helm, it got worse. Our own government spying on it's citizens who many times weren't doing anything wrong. Add the McCarthy witch hunts in the 50's and we were no better than the Nazis at putting people in jail for their thoughts, and this is supposed to be a democracy. 

Just because the ex-head of your GCHQ says backdoors are bad doesn't necessarily mean they haven't tried forcing them in, just like our NSA might be doing. Everyone watches too much TV but you have to wonder how many of the spying movies actually are based on some fact. We'll never know because I'm sure some are run without too much oversight. How much of the Bourne Identity is based on current "lawful" spying? I'd rather Apple continue to try their hardest to protect my data from criminals, advertisers, and governments who don't need to see my legal data.

Just saw this: "Microsoft has issued a Windows 10 security update to prevent hackers from breaking into PCs using Cortana." Was this an honest bug or someone forcing in a backdoor?

Kopfschmerzen said:

Why does nobody care about LinkedIn also removed?

Microsoft bought them for way too much money, perfect reason to drop them. People don't understand the fine line between announcing yourself on the web for business reasons and announcing yourself on the web for people to attack and misuse your information. Same with Facebook, which proved it could care less about its customers. Linkedln contains way too much personal information in one place. Easy target for phishing and spamming.

Waiting to hear comments about still no CMYK. How many of you still design for print and how many only design for web and other non-print work?

i also started with the full Adobe suite in the early ‘90’s (whenever it actually came out), having to budget enough money to cover several dozen artist, designers and photographers. It wasn’t easy going from the art board to the computer. It also wasn’t cheap. 

DAalseth said:

Wait a second:

The "Producing Routing Messages for Voice Over IP Communications" have patent numbers 9,537,762, 9,813,330, 9,826,002, and 9,948,549, and while the first thee were granted during 2017, the last was issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in April 2018.

iMessage, FaceTime, and WiFi Calling all predate that. They existed as patented technologies or public domain technologies before the patents were issued. These patents should never have been issued.

I looked at the first patent listed and it had pages of referenced patents. Don’t understand this since it looks like they’re simply trying to get a patent based on work done by 1000 others. Company located in Bellevue, WA, real close to Microsoft headquarters.