• Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    2 years ago

    This is why I have always said you shouldn’t trust Apple. They have absolute power over you.

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      2 years ago

      Did you read the article? It says the federal government compelled Apple to comply and gave them a gag order.

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        2 years ago

        You can de-Google an Android phone with a custom ROM and have a phone that you have control over and know nobody is spying on you by running a firewall on the phone.

        Can’t do that on an Apple.

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            It’s not quite the same though. With a custom android ROM, you can be pretty confident that everything kernel-and-up is not spying on you. On iOS and macOS, you don’t have the same level of verifiability, as the OS could just circumvent any VPN/firewall you might have configured. They might pinky promise not to, but without running another external firewall it’s not really verifiable.

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      2 years ago

      As the article says, Apple and Google both do it. Apple disclosed it, Google did not.

      How is your conclusion ‘I don’t trust Apple’?

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        2 years ago

        The Ars article on this said Google had been disclosing this for the past decade already whereas Apple didn’t.

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          2 years ago

          It said that Google put it in their aggregated report. Not that they disclosed it. There is a big difference between ‘we got 100 requests’ and ‘we got 10 requests for X info, 30 for Y info’.

          ETA: I just looked at the data again, it’s broken in to categories like FISA NSL etc, then it just gives a range of requests 0-1000 etc.