> Think of it this way: If you want to hide from companies, choose Apple. If you want to hide from the US Government, choose open source. It's not just the US

> Think of it this way: If you want to hide from companies, choose Apple. If you want to hide from the US Government, choose open source. It's not just the US government: they've been cooperating with the PRC government as well (e.g. iCloud in China runs on servers owned by a state-owned company, and apparently China rejected the HSM Apple was using elsewhere, so they designed one specifically for China). Apple has some deniability there, but I personally wouldn't be surprised if China could get any data from them that it wanted. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-censorship-data.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...