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Deny, deny, deny until the evidence is undeniable... then it'll either be "we were cooperating with X government request" or "sorry, a recent investigation has
by parliament32 8y ago
Deny, deny, deny until the evidence is undeniable... then it'll either be "we were cooperating with X government request" or "sorry, a recent investigation has shown that we were wrong". There's simply no advantage to them admitting that a large portion of their hardware is backdoored with no fix.
- threeseed 8y agoThere's a massive advantage for Apple to be upfront about security breaches. They are using privacy as a major product differentiator. If people stop trusting Apple it's going to cause direct impact to their bottom line.
- parliament32 8y agoNot security breach specific, but remember when Apple continuously denied that they purposefully slow down old iPhones, then eventually admitted to it? http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2018/02/apple-changes-the-timeline-of-disclosure-to-customers-about-slowing-iphones-and-contradicts-tim-cooks-public-statement.html http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2018/02/apple-ch...