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Apple lost me as a customer completely with CSAM this year. But I am thankful because I dramatically reduced my smartphone usage to incidental and mandatory use
by nbzso 5y ago
Apple lost me as a customer completely with CSAM this year. But I am thankful because I dramatically reduced my smartphone usage to incidental and mandatory use-cases.
For me this is a strictly personal stance.
People will continue to fall into deep surveillance state not just because only “Nothing to hide” false assumptions. Governments love access to citizens data and partnership with corporations is guaranteed.
On a professional level I “trust” only FOSS software with network access, the others will be air-gaped as much as possible.
- sbacic 5y agoI agree. I've been meaning to buy an Apple laptop to develop on for years now and constantly kept putting it off; first because of quality concerns that have no place in a device with such a price tag and now because of this. If only there was a Linux-compatible laptop with specs similar to the M1. The only thing that comes to mind are Thinkpads and those things are ugly as hell.
- fsflover 5y agoNot really similar specs to M1, but: https://puri.sm/products/librem-14 https://puri.sm/products/librem-14.
- nbzso 5y agoI use PureOS on old Macbook Air for casual browsing with Hardened Firefox and Emacs for RSS/Org-mode and it runs very smoothly. Moved office to Arch/Manjaro, Win VM’s in isolation for design tasks. M advancements of Apple are not so critical when considering cost per performance. There is no denying their advancements, but who knows what’s going on inside this architecture. Some will say that I am overeating, but since reading Trusting trust (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...) I shifted my mind towards Raptor Computers direction. The prices are high but paying for open hardware is smart investment in the current climate.
- fsflover 5y agoIf you like security through isolation, I recommend to try https://qubes-os.org https://qubes-os.org.
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- nullwarp 5y agoWhile not ARM powered, Framework laptops are worth a look and what I ultimately have moved to
- sbacic 5y agoFramework looks interesting, even though the CPU is not as good as the M1. Pity it's only available in the US.
- masswerk 5y agoWhile personally decidedly not a fan of this, Apple's proposed attempt on CASM was quite different from what is generally alleged in that article. In principle it matched a downloaded set of encrypted hashes of known offending images against any images before they were uploaded to the iCloud and this locally. A recorded offence would result in a local warning, and, if you proceeded, the offending image would have been exposed to further scrutiny and review (by this breaking the end-to-end encryption promise, but you would know and this would have implied your consent). It's not that far from Gatekeeper and other signature matching malware detectors. You may have already problems with the latter, but this is basically where we are.
- vorpalhex 5y agoYou're depending on Apple not tampering with or receiving a tampered CSAM hash list. The same company that opened Chinese iCloud to the ccp, took down a voting app when asked by Russia and generally blows around like a leaf on the ask of authoritarian governments. Gatekeeper and app notarization went from something you could bypass to now a hard block on distributing your own software on MacOS without approval from Apple.
- smoldesu 5y agoThe centralized root of trust is what really turns me away from Apple these days. Why should I put my faith in the world's largest corporation? Are all my eggs safer in this basket? Is this one 'too big to fail' now?
- robertoandred 5y agoWhy wouldn't the reviewer note that the flagged image isn't CSAM?
- mulmen 5y agoWhy would they? What is their motivation to do so?
- Clubber 5y ago