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Oh fuck that. Whenever they want to push through totalitarian laws, they come with tear jerkers as “sexually exploited children” or “terrorists”. As if spy agencies, like the five eyes, ever gave a fuck about children. Heck, they will partake in narcotics trade or sex trafficking, if it can fund some black ops without scrutiny from civil oversight.

Law enforcement, you lazy fucks, investigate the old fashioned way, with shoe leather and undercover work, planting bugs, search warrants etc. instead thinking you can do investigations by sitting at a desk spying on the public while stuffing your fat faces with donuts.

Apple should move its HQ to Iceland or some other encryption friendly jurisdiction and tell five eyes to go poke themselves.

Why should Apple remove the apps? The Apps aren’t pirated. With the same reason they could sue for the removal of web browsers or messaging apps, as these can be used of illegal downloads, streaming, and distribution.

Apple is the wrong target here, the companies publishing the apps or providing the content should be the target.

What amazing chutzpah and what sense of entitlement!

Just because the internet was originally designed in a non-commercial, academic, trusted environment where privacy wasn’t a concern, and companies like FB had a golden Moment where they could rape users’ privacy by exploiting technical shortcomings of the internet, doesn’t give them a right to these shortcomings.

This is reminiscent of lazy law enforcement: before the days of the phone, there was no wiretapping, and investigators had to burn shoe leather to get results. Then there was an era of flawed technology, where it was trivial to tap wires or intercept radio. Now that these flaws are eliminated, they also think they are permanently entitled to the fruits of the flaws of analog telecommunications. 

Damn right it is, and more importantly, it should be.

Let’s put it more to the point:

What should be criminal violations of privacy and data theft is under assault by Apple, which unlike the rest of the market, makes an honest living selling more or less great products, rather than using more or less shabby products sold at dumping prices to bug and spy on their users.

Sounds like a perfect RasPi4/Kali project to regain access to a Mac from which one’s locked out...