StrangeDays
About
- Username
- StrangeDays
- Joined
- Visits
- 315
- Last Active
- Roles
- member
- Points
- 33,948
- Badges
- 2
- Posts
- 13,227
Reactions
-
'iPhone 13' to launch in September with A15, bigger batteries, researchers say
Nonsense. If you don’t want your images checked to see if they’re child pornography prior to uploading them to the commercial iCloud Photos servers, simply don’t use iCloud Photos. Or Dropbox. Or Gmail. Or One Drive. Or Twitter.darkvader said:And built in spyware.No thanks.
But good luck with an android that doesnt have real spyware.
-
Bell Labs descendant sues Apple for infringing on clutch of patents
Nonsense. Corporations giving unlimited gobs of money to politicians is not speech, it’s bribery for favorable policy. There’s a reason in other countries there is no campaign contribution. Further, the current state of affairs is hardly transparent — look up dark money, where SIGs hide their campaign donations behind layers of BS.sdw2001 said:
That’s exactly what they are. And we need more freedom and transparency for political donations, not less. Attempt to limit contributions have ended in total disaster, like we have now. The answer is total transparency.robin huber said:Political contributions are free speech, the gift from Supreme Court hell that keeps on giving. Until this changes we are an oligarchy. Forget patent reform.
Corporations are not people.
-
Apple drops lawsuit against virtualization firm Corellium
-
New FAQ says Apple will refuse pressure to expand child safety tools beyond CSAM
All the boneheads claiming Apple created a "backdoor" -- nope. All the tech companies do this (Dropbox, Microsoft, Google), and Apple did 100% server-side CSAM scanning a year ago:
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/09/apples-scanning-icloud-photos-for-child-abuse-images/
...you dudes are simply panicking and clutching your pearls because you didn't know about it before.
-
Open letter asks Apple not to implement Child Safety measures
Dropbox, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter also hash check with CSAM. You’re going to stop using all their products too, right? So…what products and services will you be using?omair said:
Well, to be fair, rest of them never promised and championed privacy like apple does. And this is nothing but a two step backdoor. I have no choice but to divest from everything i own from apple. I need to now look for alternatives to my ipad pro, macbook pro, watch, iphone, imac. I cant believe apple did this.ArchStanton said:Not a big fan of some of the wording in the letter but I understand the meaning behind the larger message. IMHO Apple made a mistake at minimum in how they rolled this out, at minimum. DAalseth comment was correct, this will be attempted to be used to bludgeon Apple. How well it succeeds is doubtful, IMHO. But the surreal irony is some of those doing the bludgeoning will be among the worst purveyors of data privacy collecting and exploitation.
No problem with the signers of the letter expressing this very important point. But Here's my problem with the signers of this letter: where the hell have they been on the vast majority of smartphone users on the planet using a platform that was tracking the hell out of them? They've just been given a big platform to condemn user privacy issue based on Apple's MEC surveilling, so where the hell is page 2 to protect hundreds of millions of people getting their privacy data tracked constantly? Speak now or show yourself to be looking for a few headlines.
EFF has been there since day 1. Calling out Facebook and Google but also calling out Apple when it was needed. Where were the rest of these letter signers? Unfortunately a few of them probably, I suspect, getting "third party research" grants. See how that works?
