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‘It May Seem Silly’
- joshontheweb 11y agoThe problem I see with his argument is that you may not be able to cease using Apple devices if they start cooperating with government surveillance because you might not ever know. The NSA can force you to cooperate with them and make it illegal for you to disclose that it is happ
- maus42 11y ago>And Apple would suffer no bad publicity for its cowardice because… ? Cowardice? Judging by the public reaction to case Snowden, I'd be willing to bet it would be considered patriotic. Regarding Apple's privacy policy (http://www.apple.com/privacy/ http://www.apple.com/privacy/) Gruber references and says that >Finally, I want to be absolutely clear that we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will. To play the devil's advocate of paranoia: What else they would say, anyway? Privacy statements are cheap. My understanding is that refusing to cooperate with US government would break a couple of laws (constitutional or not). You can prove it only after the fact - turning down the government request you consider inappropriate (if such thing ever is sent), and facing the legal consequences. To turn the paranoia lever off, I agree that after certain point "but I don't believe what they say" sounds unreasonable. However, I have no idea where the limit between unreasonable paranoia and healthy suspicion goes. Personally I don't use Apple products not because of privacy or panopticon considerations, but because I'm broke and can't afford new toys (not certainly Apple ones).