OctoMonkey

I realize there are a good number of Cook fans here but I, for one, believe he cannot leave soon enough!

The entire concept of "pay equity" is worrisome to me.  In my 40 odd years of working in a variety of jobs at a variety of organizations I cannot recall a single instance of two people doing the same (level of) work.

When working assembly, some people worked faster and some performed their work more accurately - although the argument could be made they were performing the "same job".  When doing design work it was the same affair with some people clearly outperforming their peers either in quantity or quality of work (and sometimes both).  During my time in the military it was, again, the same although the gap between performance was even greater with some higher paid personnel doing less or inferior work than that of their lower paid counterpart.

All that said, I have yet to meet a single employee who felt they were overpaid or even paid enough.  In my experience employees invariably overrate their work and contributions while griping about their pay.  With the exception of the military the salaries of my contemporaries were not known to me, nor should they have been.  With the exception of my time in the military, when I felt my compensation was insufficient, I went to the boss and told him so...  as everybody has the right to do.  If you do not receive the response you desire, you always have the option of finding another job.

Wow...  Apparently I need to re-read Foundation.  This trailer bears no resemblance to what I imagined or envisioned the story to be.

M68000 said:

Ofer said:

As others have already said, technically this amounts to illegal search. Law enforcement agencies are required to have reasonable suspicion and to obtain a warrant in order to search for illegal materials. Yet what Apple is doing is searching through every iCloud owner’s account for illegal material. Regardless of whether or not other companies already do this or whether or not it has potential for abuse by authorities, the act of searching people who are supposed to be presumed innocent is not right.

It’s legal if Apple has it in their terms of use or legal disclaimers that nearly everybody clicks through without reading when installing software.   It’s really their computer and their software and OS.  They can and will change their legal agreement for their terms of use for their customers. 

Point of clarification on terms and conditions of use:  It is legal only if doing so does not violate law.  Contracts (agreements) which violate law are either invalid in their entirety or the portions which violate law are invalid.  This is not to say the terms of use being discussed here are illegal, just that there are limits to terms and conditions of use.

Ofer said:

Sadly, even with this new tool, Apple is still the best game in town as far as user privacy is concerned. I’m a big fan of the company and have been using their products since the very first computer I’ve owned (anyone remember the Apple IIgs?). However, if they continue in this trajectory, I may have to start researching other options.

Yes, I remember the IIgs, still have one...  as well as my first Macintosh (a platinum Plus I purchased new back in '87).

Sadly, due to this CSAM scanning, I will almost certainly be moving away from Apple.  I have already disabled the auto-upgrade on our dozen, or so, iOS based devices.  When iOS 15 comes out, that will be the end of updates for us.  Since we don't use iCloud and rarely text, this "feature" would have little impact on us.  However, the very notion that a company (any company) believes it has the right to place what amounts to spyware on devices I own is completely unacceptable!  If this means eventually going back to a "dumb" phone, then so be it.  Even if Apple were to state it will not include this "feature", I would probably not trust them enough to believe them...  perhaps they would just do it anyway without telling anybody.

In fairness, I grew up consuming more than my fair share of dystopian novels and movies which might be influencing my position a bit.  :-)