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It's clear that EARN IT could literally be revived any day if Apple didn't do something to say "we don't need it because we've already satisfied your requiremen
by orangecat 5y ago
It's clear that EARN IT could literally be revived any day if Apple didn't do something to say "we don't need it because we've already satisfied your requirements."
Alternatively, "Apple has shown that it's possible to do without undue hardship, so we should make everyone else do it too".
- gjsman-1000 5y agoCongress doesn't give a rip about "undue hardship." Otherwise why would we pay income tax? They were going to legally mandate that everything be scanned through methods less private than the ones Apple has developed here, through EARN IT and potentially LAED (which would have banned E2E in all circumstances and any device that could not be unlocked by the manufacturer). While that crisis was temporarily averted, the risk of it coming back was and is very real. Apple decided to get ahead of it with a better solution, even though that solution is still bad. It's a lesser evil to prevent the return of something worse.