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> And yet you can identify no real alternative. Qubes/Whonix/Tails or any hardened linux distros is a practical and widely accepted alternative in the security
by f430 6y ago
> And yet you can identify no real alternative.
Qubes/Whonix/Tails or any hardened linux distros is a practical and widely accepted alternative in the security field.
To my knowledge I don't think I recall anybody using a comprehensive "pen test" framework on a Mac.
> has refused to turn over user data even after legal challenges from the federal government
While this is true, it never stopped the agencies from getting their data through other means.
There is a company in Israel that specializes in unlocking iPhone data. It recently lead to the arrest of a child sex cult ring in South Korea.
> doesn’t generate revenues from advertising and selling user data.
neither does Microsoft if you consider the metrics are used internally and using it to optimize their product to maximize revenues.
I will agree that it is less pervasive than Google or Facebook.
- yborg 6y agoAnd these alternate solutions lack 75% of the functionality available to customers of Apple products. It isn't that these customers are all clueless dunces, many of them look at the tradeoffs and if they are living in a country with some citizen rights conclude that the risk is acceptable given the magnitude of the tradeoff.