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That doesn't really seem to be related here. One of the reasons I gave up on Slashdot was how people used any story as a tangent to flog their unrelated hatred
by oldmanjay 11y ago
That doesn't really seem to be related here.
One of the reasons I gave up on Slashdot was how people used any story as a tangent to flog their unrelated hatred of some company. Please don't turn HN into Slashdot.
- jwiley 11y agoI'm sorry I gave you the impression I hate Apple, thats certainly not what I intended. One of the implicit ideas underlying Apple's arguments is that they are more trustworthy than the government. But theres a lot of evidence that they are not as strong on privacy as they should be. Casting Apple, and private industry in general as privacy heros does a disservice to those very valid concerns. Heres an article from earlier this month: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-... http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/09/16/apple-releases-ios-9/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/09/16/apple-rel...
- oldmanjay 11y agoNone of this gives me the impression that I should trust the government at all, so why bother making the argument against Apple here? It doesn't effectively rebut the article. It just comes off as axe-grinding.