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Maybe you're right – I am quite a paranoid person. I guess I just don't understand how this wasn't flagged as a concern when the feature was being worked on? H
by kypro 6y ago
Maybe you're right – I am quite a paranoid person.
I guess I just don't understand how this wasn't flagged as a concern when the feature was being worked on? How is it possible that Apple's engineering team built a backdoor like this without it raising serious security concerns? And if concerns were raised why was this not adequately pen tested prior to release?
I'm not sure what's worse from a reputational perspective... A company that prides itself on privacy but can't get something as basic as a firewall right, or a company that knows how to write secure software but occasionally puts backdoors in them for intelligence agencies?
- saagarjha 6y agoI've always thought that Apple would do well to have someone on staff to give the things they make the "Hacker News" treatment.
- zimpenfish 6y agoI'd posit that if that were true, they'd probably never have made it to even a $2bn company, never mind $2tn. HN is - for Apple's intents and purposes - an insignificantly tiny bunch of people they're 95% not really interested in as customers.
- sneak 6y agoI volunteer as tribute.