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Apple's in control of the operating system. If you don't trust them, why would you think that disabling access to the camera app would do any good?
by beervirus 6y ago
Apple's in control of the operating system. If you don't trust them, why would you think that disabling access to the camera app would do any good?
- shadowgovt 6y agoThis is the absolutist security perspective, where one assumes an "evil demon" threat model (i.e. every exploit will be exploited to the maximum). It's a useful theoretical model for hardening systems against known and unknown intrusion, but it doesn't realistically model the expected outcome in a world with laws and social constraints. In practice, it's quite reasonable for a consumer to assume that the company providing them services isn't actively out to get them. In fact, we encode that assumption in law in a couple key places (to wit: if Apple is turning the camera on randomly against explicit user desire, they could be sued for invasion of privacy in the same vein as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School...)