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by Despegar 7y ago
Doesn't Apple's HomeKit do this the best? It was designed to be secure (so much that they had to backtrack on requiring hardware encryption chips) and it works locally.
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by Despegar 7y ago
>When combined with the free speech principle it animates arguments for allowing free speech on Facebook and throughout the Internet, while simultaneously also fueling arguments for breaking up the company and decentralizing its function
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by Despegar 7y ago
He's just restating the tech industry's ideology from the 90s ( A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace ) even though time has shown it to be entirely bankrupt exactly because of the China example. His real concern isn&#
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by Despegar 7y ago
It doesn't really matter if Apple is for privacy in their heart of hearts or because they're ruthless capitalists if the end result is in favor of privacy. In fact it's better if there's a profit incentive. Alignment of
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by Despegar 7y ago
One benefit of only WebKit being allowed on iOS is that it gives Apple the market power to shape web standards in favor of privacy.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Most of the Apple TV+ shows announced so far have TV-MA ratings [1]. They're also making the follow-up miniseries to Band of Brothers and The Pacific which will undoubtedly be violent [2]. [1] https://tv.apple.com/
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by Despegar 7y ago
Apple has said in statements to the press, as well as Tim Cook's interview with Vice, that they retain the keys and that they haven't been made available to GCBD. >Originally, iCloud data was stored on Apple-controlled servers,
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by Despegar 7y ago
The boilerplate ToS doesn't contradict anything they've said in the court filings I linked to or the press statements and Tim Cook's interview (linked to in the original thread) about how iPhone/iCloud security works in
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by Despegar 7y ago
Actually we can't assume that at all. It seems I'm going to have to repost this comment a thousand times https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20904857 >Apple has already publicly said in court filings, and unde
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by Despegar 7y ago
Gruber is taking Ceglowski and HKmap.live's comments at face value, but they aren't disinterested actors. They both have (admirable) agendas in the pro-democracy protests. Of course they're going to characterize the app in th
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by Despegar 7y ago
None of this is inconsistent with what Apple has said about the security of iPhones or iCloud. Anything that's not end-to-end encrypted, as listed here [1], is subject to law enforcement requests, as it is everywhere. [1] https:/
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by Despegar 7y ago
You can have iCloud enabled for Messages, but if you have iCloud Backup on then the keys are stored in the backup. >Messages in iCloud also uses end-to-end encryption. If you have iCloud Backup turned on, your backup includes a copy of t
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by Despegar 7y ago
It's useful that people keep seeing it because I've seen plenty of bad faith comments about this over the years.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Not only is this not news there's a lot of FUD about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20904857 Reposting my comment: Apple has already publicly said in court filings, and under threat of perjury, that they don&
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by Despegar 7y ago
>If I were Tim Cook I'd be real worried about being shut out of my own supply chain right about now. If this extremely unlikely event happened the US government isn't going to ignore it.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Are you kidding? US foreign policy regularly ignores "values" for other interests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Communiqu%C3%A9s
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by Despegar 7y ago
China is never going to mess with Apple in any significant way. Not only would it be cutting off their nose to spite their face in terms of unemployment, it would immediately lead to capital flight out of China which they absolutely can&#x2
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by Despegar 7y ago
It's easy to boycott companies that are only in China as another market to sell to. It's not easy to boycott one of the largest private employers in an industry the CCP views as strategically important.
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by Despegar 7y ago
Apple will most likely be fine because it's unlike any other western company operating in China in that it employs a lot of people assembling their products. It's not in the CCP's interest for people to boycott Apple in a nat
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China state newspaper criticizes Apple for app use by Hong Kong protesters(reuters.com)
2 points by Despegar 7y ago|0 comments
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by Despegar 7y ago
>but will it be true 5 years from now? Yes. Apple is never going to leave China. They've already expanded assembly to other countries like Brazil and India to get around protectionist barriers, but there's never going to be a t
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by Despegar 7y ago
Actually this is as much a waste of time as telling people who are concerned about climate change that they should stop using plastic straws rather than pushing for systemic changes that only governments can address with laws. Tech folk alw
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by Despegar 7y ago
Why would it need the "support of the FCC"? Congress can pass a law anytime it wants and most likely they'll task the FTC in enforcing it. They could also create a brand new agency if they wanted to.
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Silicon Valley donors back Elizabeth Warren despite pledge to break up Big Tech(cnbc.com)
29 points by Despegar 7y ago|4 comments
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by Despegar 7y ago
This article is written as if we don't already know if Alexa (and its competitors) are the next big computing platform. We already know it isn't. Alexa first came out in 2014. If it was the world changing product that people said
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64-bit support first arrived in Leopard in 2007. Everyone has had plenty of time.
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How to Fix Germany’s Ailing Economy(barrons.com)
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by Despegar 7y ago
I don't understand how people think self-driving is Uber's solution. Right now drivers are a variable cost. Is Uber going to buy or lease fleets of self-driving cars (that will depreciate and need to be replaced)? That seems like
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by Despegar 7y ago
>They act like they're some superimportant holders of knowledge, and require all kind of identification, personal information, ID document copies, whatever, just to even listen to you. Google's real issue isn't that they h
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by Despegar 7y ago
These stories happen on local news usually and they're extremely common. 9to5Mac has links to various fall detection stories at the bottom of this post https://9to5mac.com/2019/09/21/apple-watch-fall-dete

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