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  • Apple & Google profit as Chinese VPNs collect your private data

    maltzmaltz
    Kind of a weird way to phrase that - lots of Apps have ties to China, with varying clarity.  Is that something anyone is expecting Apple or Google to screen for?  How even would they?  They're mostly screening the app itself, and that's mostly automated. They're not doing thorough background checks on developers.
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  • U.S. lawmakers & WhatsApp side with Apple against UK demand for iCloud encryption backdoor...

    maltzmaltz
    "Once a backdoor exists, it becomes a notable weak point that would invariably be targeted by malicious actors."

    Case in point... China likely had access to US wiretapping backdoors for over a year before it was detected, and penetration was so deep, that nearly a year after it was discovered, they were still believed to have some remaining footholds.
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  • iOS 26 vs iOS 18: Is Apple's 'Liquid Glass' a true redesign?

    maltzmaltz
    entropys said:
    Modern Aqua.

    i like it. 

    Next step: Skeuomorphism!

    I had the same thought.  I was waiting for someone to describe it as "lickable".  lol
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  • Petition calls for Apple to resume updates for discontinued AirPort routers

    maltzmaltz
    The Airport routers were good, and I had one for a while.  They were VERY reliable... and that's about the only good thing I can say about them.  (Not to minimize that...)  They were some of the most expensive routers on the market while at the same time being among the least-featured.  That has its place, especially at the time, but honestly, if that's all you need, you can probably get by just fine with your ISP-provided router for free these days.  They're not the hot garbage they used to be, and you never have to think about firmware updates, etc.
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  • TP-Link Deco BE5000 review: whole-home mesh Wi-Fi 7 on a budget

    maltzmaltz
    nubus said:
    The review seems woefully incomplete without mentioning the lack of 6Ghz support.   Looks like a great product otherwise, but that’s something that surely should be pointed out for a review of a network product? 
    No 6 GHz support? But then the backbone is taking bandwidth from the clients. Also important to those living in an apartment as 2.4 and 5 GHz are often saturated and now the backbone has to run on that as well. Agree it should have been in the review.

    Also worth mentioning are the massive security problems with TP-Link. Hard to recommend products when DOJ and FBI are deeply concerned.
    DOJ and FBI are also deeply concerned over TikTok and 10 trans people competing in the NCAA[...]

    Not sure what one has to do with the other, but neither of those are the fringe issues you seem to think they are.  The TikTok ban was passed 352-65 in the house.  And bans on other such Chinese companies in the enterprise space, like DJI and Huawei, are also bipartisan and international.  (And according to several polls and even Gavin Newsom, there's pretty broad agreement against trans in sports as well, at least outside of congress.)

    And there's very good reason for being worried about China's infiltration of our infrastructure - they've already done it very aggressively, multiple times.  Most recently and severely with them hacking into the Treasury department and telecom companies, the latter giving them near-complete (and ongoing) access to every phone call and SMS text in the country by being deeply burrowed into the mechanisms the telecoms use for "wire tapping" lines these days.  (At least now we have a concrete example of why backdoors are bad.)
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