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I hate be a spoil sport, but generally I don't need protection from the FBI, NSA, CIA. I need convenience to unlock my phone/laptop quickly with a fingerprint,

I hate be a spoil sport, but generally I don't need protection from the FBI, NSA, CIA. I need convenience to unlock my phone/laptop quickly with a fingerprint, even after a restart. XKCD nails this: https://xkcd.com/538 https://xkcd.com/538 I'm MOST concerned with Google/Facebook continuously circumventing laws and violating my opt-out preferences. I'd like to have a null advertising ID for instance. Can't do that. And besides, you don't own root access on your devices. Apple/Google does. To think that a userspace app is secure where Google/Apple controls the kernel, or even something basic as remote screenshots is sort of silly.

sterlind 6y ago
the US has problems, but the police won't hit anyone with wrenches to get them to talk. torture taints the evidence obtained. the reason spy agencies can do it is because they're not law-enforcement. that's why they have to use parallel construction, to launder the evidence trail.
- exabrial 6y ago
  They're not going to hit you with a wrench... it's a comic. However, they will hit you will civil asset forfeiture, freeze your accounts so you can't pay lawyers, run your name through the news so you lose your job, jail you until your trial etc.
reaperducer 6y ago
I hate be a spoil sport, but generally I don't need protection from the FBI, NSA, CIA. Awesome. Good for you. However, there are people out there who are busy changing the world, holding the powerful to account, and generally being involved in society in ways that are less safe and more interesting than you do. This is about them, not about you.
- exabrial 6y ago
  > there are people out there who are busy changing the world It's kind of interesting to me to see the Apple bullshit propaganda being repeated on HN so many times. Tell me, do you have root access to your phone and are your binaries created from reproducible builds? Otherwise it is marketing wank.

sterlind 6y ago

the US has problems, but the police won't hit anyone with wrenches to get them to talk. torture taints the evidence obtained. the reason spy agencies can do it is because they're not law-enforcement. that's why they have to use parallel construction, to launder the evidence trail.

exabrial 6y ago
They're not going to hit you with a wrench... it's a comic. However, they will hit you will civil asset forfeiture, freeze your accounts so you can't pay lawyers, run your name through the news so you lose your job, jail you until your trial etc.

reaperducer 6y ago

I hate be a spoil sport, but generally I don't need protection from the FBI, NSA, CIA. Awesome. Good for you. However, there are people out there who are busy changing the world, holding the powerful to account, and generally being involved in society in ways that are less safe and more interesting than you do. This is about them, not about you.

exabrial 6y ago
> there are people out there who are busy changing the world It's kind of interesting to me to see the Apple bullshit propaganda being repeated on HN so many times. Tell me, do you have root access to your phone and are your binaries created from reproducible builds? Otherwise it is marketing wank.