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Preventing data theft through wiping the entire device is perfectly legit in case of passphrase recovery. Simply preventing passphrase recovery apart from a tr
by southerntofu 5y ago
Preventing data theft through wiping the entire device is perfectly legit in case of passphrase recovery.
Simply preventing passphrase recovery apart from a trusted centralized third party (Apple) is wrong on many levels: it's an ecological disaster, it's a disappointment to good-faith second-hand buyers, it's incentives for corruption within Apple and a shady iCloud unlocker business...
In essence, it's fundamentally incompatible with right to repair and fuels an Apple-insider mafia that honest people have to bribe in order to use a device. That's pretty much Apple's fault no doubt.
- suction 5y agoYou do understand that second-hand Apple devices are being sold and bought every day? Only those where the previous owner was too blasé to turn off the cloud lock can't be sold on. Which is not Apple's fault.
- southerntofu 5y agoWow, are we recursing? Yes of course it's Apple's fault. Apple could allow to remove the phone locking mechanism on the condition to fully erase data on the phone. That would make their phones suitable for second-hand market and as a consequence more eco-friendly. But they have decided to go against right to repair and against basic principles of ecology. Just as they have, in other fields, decided to go against basic principles of interoperability (Micro-USB/USB-C charger? Jack plug? Standard screws? who needs that, right?). So yes Apple is harming users and is harming the environment. No amount of greenwashing can undo that.
- suction 5y agoTheir phones are fully suitable for 2nd hand markets as-is. I sense a bit of a an Anti-Apple dogma here, so please excuse me not coming back to this.