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It's hard to take Gruber seriously because of his bias towards Apple. Gruber is concerned about things Schmidt says, yet not about what Apple does, i.e. creatin

It's hard to take Gruber seriously because of his bias towards Apple. Gruber is concerned about things Schmidt says, yet not about what Apple does, i.e. creating a device that logs everything you type, takes pictures of you without you knowing it, etc. http://bit.ly/9Gox6U http://bit.ly/9Gox6U

Anechoic 16y ago
creating a device that logs everything you type, takes pictures of you without you knowing it The article you linked to supports neither of those accusations.
- mcantelon 16y ago
  Claim: "logs everything you type" Article: "The keyboard cache logs everything that you type in to learn autocorrect ... someone with know-how could recover months of typing in the order in which it was typed" Claim: "takes pictures of you without you knowing it" Article: "...the phone itself automatically shoots and stores hundreds of such images as people close out one application to use another." Article: "Every time an iPhone user closes out of the built-in mapping application, the phone snaps a screenshot and stores it"
  - Anechoic 16y ago
    1 for 2: I missed the part about the keyboard cache (although unless the cache organizes the data in their original sentence structure, I don't see how useful it would be). However, taking screenshots /= "takes pictures of you"
    - mcantelon 16y ago
      You're right... I misread that (although secretly taking screenshots is also creepy).
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tlammens 16y ago
Indeed, he always writes with a bias towards Apple and against competitors of Apple, which of course makes him very popular with the Apple fanboy crowd. That is one of the reasons I never pay a lot of attention to these kind of posts. Besides that, I may hope my iPhone does not do such thing as you say (at least not sending the information to Apple), otherwise Apple can expect a lot of legal trouble, I guess... ;-)
jbjohns 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem Do you have anything to comment on the article?

Anechoic 16y ago

creating a device that logs everything you type, takes pictures of you without you knowing it The article you linked to supports neither of those accusations.

mcantelon 16y ago
Claim: "logs everything you type" Article: "The keyboard cache logs everything that you type in to learn autocorrect ... someone with know-how could recover months of typing in the order in which it was typed" Claim: "takes pictures of you without you knowing it" Article: "...the phone itself automatically shoots and stores hundreds of such images as people close out one application to use another." Article: "Every time an iPhone user closes out of the built-in mapping application, the phone snaps a screenshot and stores it"
- Anechoic 16y ago
  1 for 2: I missed the part about the keyboard cache (although unless the cache organizes the data in their original sentence structure, I don't see how useful it would be). However, taking screenshots /= "takes pictures of you"
  - mcantelon 16y ago
    You're right... I misread that (although secretly taking screenshots is also creepy).

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tlammens 16y ago

Indeed, he always writes with a bias towards Apple and against competitors of Apple, which of course makes him very popular with the Apple fanboy crowd. That is one of the reasons I never pay a lot of attention to these kind of posts. Besides that, I may hope my iPhone does not do such thing as you say (at least not sending the information to Apple), otherwise Apple can expect a lot of legal trouble, I guess... ;-)

jbjohns 16y ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem Do you have anything to comment on the article?