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by bduerst 7y ago
Blocking Google and Wikipedia didn't cause an exodus of internet companies.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Ironically, Waze is owned by Google and not available in China because they did not capitulate to the Chinese government, so maybe that's a bad analogy.
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Where did Tim Cook specifically say that? Because in the vice interview you keep citing he specifically dances around answering that question. The servers were nationalized and the TOS agreement was changed since that 9-to-5 article came ou
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by bduerst 7y ago
GCBD was nationalized by the Chinese government six months after Apple forced users to opt in to moving data to their servers. The problem isn't really that the data is hosted locally, but that the servers with the Apple user data (and
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by bduerst 7y ago
Where does Tim Cook specifically say that? What you quoted does not support that. The encryption keys are for iCloud backups at rest, for which a copy of the keys are stored serverside. This can decrypt all iCloud data, including messag
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by bduerst 7y ago
Right, but it will be several generations before that even becomes a possibility. Right now you have the famine generation who remembers how terrible things used to be, and will be content as long as things are and continue to improve.
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by bduerst 7y ago
The history of freedom of speech is rooted in western philosophy, right down to it's origins in Greek and English cultures.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Nothing in that quote backs up your statement. Tim Cook is describing how encryption works - he is not saying that the Chinese government doesn't have access to the data at rest with the iCloud encryption keys. Amnesty Internation
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It's not a secret. Apple even made a statement to reuters at the start of the migration process where they tried to get iCloud as an exception but failed - "“While we advocated against iCloud being subject to these laws, we were
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by bduerst 7y ago
They did it in two steps. Apple forced users to opt into storing iCloud data in Chinese data centers, and then the Chinese Government nationalized the data centers six month later.
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Handing over encryption keys to access user data at rest is a backdoor.
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>It's really not a matter of ideology, it's a matter of law. The FBI requesting a backdoor to terrorist iphones was the exact same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_San_Bernardino_attack#Pho... Apple dec
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by bduerst 7y ago
As much as this seems like a foreign concept to westerners, most Chinese citizens (outside of the European provinces) simply do not care about it the way westerners do. To GP's point, their lives have and continue to improve, with the
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by bduerst 7y ago
They can and do when a substitute product exists.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Which was only a project proposal that was cancelled after employees rebelled against it. Apple actually did it .
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Apple used to think so when privacy was on the line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_San_Bernardino_attack#Pho...
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by bduerst 7y ago
You can still ban bad actor apps from your app store while still allowing users to opt-in to side loading.
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by bduerst 7y ago
The term is Sea Lioning , though that typically comes with a repetition of forced burden-of-proofs on the presenter. Based off of this web comic: http://wondermark.com/c/2014-09-19-1062sea.png
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by bduerst 7y ago
But only two or three generations with automobiles
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by bduerst 7y ago
Android is open source so of course the lowest tier phone OEMs are going to fork/use it. I was in Shanghai a while and could buy counterfeit iphones too despite Apple being there.
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by bduerst 7y ago
How so? Trade war affects you the least (and your competition the most) if you're not even in the country.
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by bduerst 7y ago
In early 2018, Apple forced their users to opt-in to migrating iCloud encryption keys and data to Chinese data centers: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh... Chinese government nationalized th
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by bduerst 7y ago
>"Apple shares user encryption keys with the Chinese government, for example, giving the Chinese government access to all iCloud pictures, messages, documents, videos, etc." Is the full sentence with context, meaning access for
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by bduerst 7y ago
True, but Execs will gatekeep the final review and approval for larger responses and campaigns.
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Yes, and I've seen people (obnoxious drunks) get escorted out. This is also a pre-season game.
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by bduerst 7y ago
The president asked for the assistance of Chinese government to help him get dirt on his political opponents in the U.S. https://www.apnews.com/c4fc388b22f549e0a67925cab8cd7e93
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by bduerst 7y ago
Were they escorted out because of what they were saying, or were they escorted out for being annoying and disrupting the game?
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by bduerst 7y ago
Gatestone is a conservative think tank with a history of inaccurate reporting and pushing an anti-Muslim bias, so I wouldn't be surprised.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Damore was fired for perpetuating gender stereotypes - even he confirmed as much with the press. Ironically enough, you can find that information and the memo through a quick Google search.
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by bduerst 7y ago
Kind of - Japan ratified the TPP, and Obama just said he'd talk about it. Regardless, you're still right. In lieu of the TPP falling apart, China created it's own version to control APAC trade and fill the power gap, called

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