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Agree the article doesn’t answer the question at all. My guess is expertise and scale; if Apple finds five such users a day, that doesn’t support a staff of 10
by brookst 2y ago
Agree the article doesn’t answer the question at all.
My guess is expertise and scale; if Apple finds five such users a day, that doesn’t support a staff of 100 forensic experts. But if Apple, Facebook, Google, etc, etc, find 500 users a day, that might.
But who knows? The article sure doesn’t.
- nottorp 2y agoThe real question is: does Apple donate to this nonprofit?
- chmod775 2y agoAccording to this[1] it looks like Apple is more or less directly funding the helpline, so it's more like Apple is outsourcing the work. Note that I don't think the 2024 table is complete yet. Compared to 2023 there's hardly anything on it. In 2023 you can see that Meta was specifically funding the helpline. Lots of other major tech companies show up too. Though mostly the charity seems to run on European taxpayer money (~60% of its funding). [1] https://www.accessnow.org/financials/ https://www.accessnow.org/financials/
- nottorp 2y agoLooks like Apple has been funding them for at least the past 3 years so this may even be fair. If you're really targeted, "they" will also go for your non Apple devices like your "smart" TV. So you could probably use support to harden all your tech stuff.
- pdpi 2y agoThat’s a good point. Apple’s game is deep vertical integration. That’s all fine and dandy for selling products, but helps not one bit for customers who aren’t all-in on Apple’s ecosystem. A third party who only does this sort of work, in a platform agnostic way, is the sane way to handle things.
- nvahalik 2y agoRight. If there is training or some other non-Apple/vendor agnostic stuff that has to go on (VPN) or device management they probably don’t want to get involved.