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It appears that the NSO spyware was used to target the wife of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. She had an Android phone but the same company has hacks for the iPhone's iMessage. Apple should shut down iMessage until it can release a complete patch. If parts of it cannot be patched immediately, those features should be disabled until they can be. Roll out the fixes over time. Get ahead of this Apple.

Dear Apple, disable iMessage until you can make it bullet proof. In its current state, it will likely get people killed. Journalists, government critics and politically connected people are all at risk. Even US soldiers and embassy workers could be at risk. Also, sending out a list of replies to journalists and telling them that they cannot quote you in their stories in this life and death subject is not a good look. Please get ahead of this story and do the right thing. Speak plainly. Act swiftly. Your credibility is on the line.

I can't think of a more sure fire way to get congress to look at a company for anti-trust enforcement than to treat its employees like this. This will pretty much guarantee a lot of whistle blowers coming forward to show how Apple says one thing and does another. Also, how do you tell your customers that your tech has awesome security but then not trust it enough to allow your own employees to work remotely? Eat your own dog food!

We have been hearing about the toxic working conditions at Apple for decades. They treat different types of employees with differing levels of respect. It's like a cast system. "Oh no you can't use those bathrooms. Those are for the full time employees not for contractors like you." Even if you are one of the chosen full time employees, can you imagine working at a company like that? Is this one of the reasons why Apple employees don't want to return to work? How about the oppressive levels of security? We learned that in the latest version of MacOS that different groups got different parts of the operating system locked so that they could not see what other engineers were working on. How about that for being treated with distrust by your own company? It goes on and on. Apple has some very serious internal issues to work out.

OK but so what? Do you look at your iPad screen and think "Wow that looks terrible! I wish it had micro LED." You know what would make a difference? A REAL OPERATING SYSTEM!!!!! One that lets you install any app you want. One powerful enough to let you develop real software right on the iPad. One which lets you easily browse or list files. One which lets you share files with other computers easily (including Windows computers). One which does not have any stupid corporate restrictions on what you can use it for.

Kaspersky has since replaced the password generator with one that is far more difficult to determine how it easy it is to crack.