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  • Apple demands Telegram remove posts related to Belarus protests, controversy ensues

    rcfarcfa
    Disgusting that Apple would side with a vile authoritarian regime!
    Does it really have to be about gay rights before Tim
    Cook smells the coffee?
    🤮

    Apple has no right to banish Telegram over contents, particularly not over contents that could be accessed via its own Safari browser!

    There’s nothing inherent about Telegram pertinent to the information posted, other than Telegram being an uncensored communications platform that anyone can use to transmit whatever information they want to transmit.

    What information Party A transmits to Party B using a tool C provided by party D that happens to be distributed by party E’s (Apple) using their platform F (AppStore), is utterly irrelevant. 

    Does Apple really want to be internet censor?
    Is Safari going to include a filter getting rid of information any arbitrarily authoritarian government anywhere objects to?
    If not, why does Apple interfere with Telegram?

    if Russia, China, Belarus, and North Korea object to Telegram, and Apple really wants to be a commercial whore, then remove the app from those countries AppStores, but don’t pretend the App is in violation of anything other than Apple’s desire to maximize profits in regions with authoritarian governments.

    Stop preaching about how privacy is at the core of Apple’s philosophy. Nobody needs privacy for dick pictures, we need privacy to overthrow oppressive governments!
    cat52iHyOfer

  • iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 mini support mmWave 5G, but only in US [u]

    rcfarcfa
    Well, there’s international roaming. Just because carriers outside the US don’t support it, doesn’t mean that people traveling with their phones in the US don’t want to be able to use it.
    watto_cobra

  • You can't stereo pair HomePod with HomePod mini, but home theater support coming soon

    rcfarcfa
    Stereo pairs should always be matching speakers.

    However with two HomePods as main speakers, the minis should be good enough as surround speakers for a center and rear channels, provided Apple does it.

    certainly the minis should be ok for kitchen, bath, or near field desktop speakers...
    foregoneconclusionwilliamlondonrazorpitStrangeDayswatto_cobra

  • DOJ formalizes request for encryption back-doors

    rcfarcfa

    verne arase said:
    Hmmm ... maybe only until the DOJ and the other Eyes show they're incompetent at keeping key stores away from the bad guys.

    After that, back to end-to-end encryption.

    Also, I want to see evidence after a year about what criminal or terrorist activity has been curtailed due to the government back door.

    If the government can't clearly demonstrate that their back door has proven efficacious, they shouldn't be allow to keep it.

    Basically this means that they should have to prove that a back door yields positive, tangible results - if they can't do that, they shouldn't have the continued ability to invade our privacy. This should be written into the legislation making this a requirement.

    If they can't get such legislation passed, they can go pound sand. We are after all, a society of laws and not a kingdom of decrees.
    No need: we know what the PATRIOT act resulted in: zero prevented terrorist attacks, but a whole bunch of small time criminals, like low level drug dealers and prostitutes in jail. It won’t be any different this time.

    Next they’ll want location data, with the same excuse.
    They yell about how horrible China is, while doing everything in their power to catch up and out-China China in their surveillance capabilities.
    Oferbaconstang

  • DOJ formalizes request for encryption back-doors

    rcfarcfa
    gatorguy said:
    rob53 said:
    ITGUYINSD said:
    Good ol' Bill Barr.  Can't wait until JAN 2021.  Buh-bye!
    I don't think that this viewpoint that the DOJ has presented is going to change, regardless of who's in charge.
    You can think that all you want but Barr is not your normal AG. Once he's gone, we can start clearing out the garbage and make sure the people who get installed are following the Constitution and laws, something Barr doesn't know anything about.
    This didn't start with Barr. The Obama administration attempted to do it too a decade ago Maybe 2010 Obama and his 2015 FBI didn't know anything about the Constitution and laws either, certainly believable. 
    https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/tech-giants-urge-obama-to-resist-backdoors-into-encrypted-communications/2015/05/18/11781b4a-fd69-11e4-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html
    Before Obama it was Bush, and before that Clinton: Clipper Chip initiative, export restrictions on crypto, 40bit SSL for outside the US...

    It’s the entire corrupt national security apparatus which thinks to be entitled to derive a right to easy data access from a windfall shortcoming in old technology, that didn’t exist before and is going away now.
    cy_starkmanbaconstangmrstep