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This is less an issue of banding together behind Apple's decision, and more about retaining moral and intellectual control of their software. If the government
by ygjb-dupe 11y ago
This is less an issue of banding together behind Apple's decision, and more about retaining moral and intellectual control of their software.
If the government can get a warrant to force you to ship a patch, regardless of the scope, you are giving the government control over every aspect of how you write code, and the next logical step is a CALEA style requirements that ensures that your build process has lawful code injection capabilities.
I can't even begin to say how awful that would be for the entire industry.
- merpnderp 11y agoHow would that even work? What if I use a raspberry pi that I've added GSM and put in a phone like case, but am running Debian? I'm guessing only a very tiny number of people would be happy with this once the ramifications became clear.