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  • Russia threatens fines if Apple & Google don't remove opposition app

    roakeroake
    Meanwhile, current Russian leadership is drafting a law to force Apple to inject hashes into the looming Apple CSAM tech to recognize certain opposition photos and graphics. This way, Apple very efficiently gives the Kremlin a list of citizens opposition Putin.
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  • Epic asks Apple to reinstate developer account so it can re-release 'Fortnite' in Korea [u...

    roakeroake

    I think it would be reasonable if Apple completely exited the South Korean (home of Samsung) market.  Otherwise, other markets will follow suit as a money grab; it will be far cheaper for Apple to pay the fine than to give away their income on apps.  That’s free money for that market that Apple has to pay to keep doing business.
    watto_cobra

  • Epic asks Apple to reinstate developer account so it can re-release 'Fortnite' in Korea [u...

    roakeroake
    mikethemartian said:
    maestro64 said:
    Hasn't epic heard they can now set up their own store in Korea and sell at whatever price they like.
    Yes that’s why they are asking Apple to reinstate them so they can sell in the South Korean market . So unless Apple is able to make a legal case against the law they either have to reinstate Epic or leave the South Korean market.
    As I understand it, Apple is under no obligation whatsoever to restate Epic’s account regardless of the law in South Korea.  The new Korean law doesn’t force Apple to give developer accounts to anyone.  It only has to do with the degree of certain types of control Apple has over apps that are published on iOS in that market.

    Epic is making this request only to create noise around it’s case.  Epic knew before they asked that Apple would say no.
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  • Personal data of 70 million AT&T customers being sold by hacker

    roakeroake
    22july2013 said:
    lkrupp said:
    What I don’t understand is why the government (NSA, CIA, TSA, Homeland Security, whatever) isn’t shutting down these hacker’s websites. It’s turning out that the internet is a massive failure, that’s its open architecture is a threat to society, that no one is safe while using it, that it’s dangerous to use. It used to be that a robber had to stick a gun in your ribs to get your money. No longer. Thieves these days simply use the internet to relieve you of your life's savings, easy peasy.
    I'm not being facetious here... I would really like to know how the US government could shut down servers in hostile countries. Or even in friendly countries. Please explain.
    With a tactical special ops team.
    watto_cobra

  • Bill Maher declares Apple CSAM tools a 'blatant constitutional breach'

    roakeroake
    genovelle said:
    tedz98 said:
    The general public has no understanding of what a file hash is. So the techies at Apple have no understanding of how the general public perceives what they are doing. They just think Apple is scanning their phone. I’m not a huge Bill Maher fan, but I agree with him here. It’s a slippery slope that Apple is embarking on.
    The general public has no idea except what the media highlights here. He is a part of the problem, likely because he has or has had such materials on his phone. Only a hit dog hollas that loud. 
    Or because he doesn’t agree with spyware being factory-installed on billions of devices.  
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