10 daysTalk is cheap
Keep pretending that the NSA doesn’t already have a million backdoors in your proprietary garbage, Tim.
- anon_8675309@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Yeah but we saw how quickly you bowed and kissed the ring of king Trump.
That shit erodes trust.
- Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
We have an easy peasy solution to that.
We will just make it illegal for burglars to look under the mat.
And if they do look under the mat, we will also make it illegal fro them to take the key.
Finally we will also make it illegal for burglars to use the key.See there an absolutely bullet proof solution, so why does the tech industry continue to claim this is a bad idea?
As a politician I simply can’t understand why they are so contrary to this idea that will increase safety for everybody!!/s (just in case)
- 10 days
Why would I leave a key under my mat for the cops in the first place?
- Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
I think you’re missing the point. Apple has famously resisted implemented back doors for the authorities.
He’s warning against leaving that metaphorical key under the mat.
- placebo@lemmy.zipEnglish9 days
They’re all essentially trying to manipulate Trump by playing into his narcissism. This is bad and not what I want to see, but it might not be an (intentional) act of submission.
- some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish9 days
Politicians who don’t understand technology (and some that do) will continue advocating for a break in encryption “so they can catch the bad guys.”
No, you fuck. Either it’s protected or it’s not. I’ve just been listening to the latest podcast from 404 Media (you should check them out; print and audio). One of their primary stories is about cops accessing Flock cameras to stalk their ex-partners. AUTHORITY NEEDS LIMITS.
- lightsblinken@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
yup, and one persons freedom fighter is another person enemy and all that.
- some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish3 days
One fascist boot-licker downvoted me. Hey fascist, no one here likes you.
- 10 days
Why are you drawing your curtains? You must have something to hide. All your neighbours live in glass houses, why do you insist on this strange idea of privacy? Open up, if you’re not guilty there’s nothing to be afraid of.
Only guilty people draw the curtains.
- TheDuke@europe.pubEnglish10 days
I do not trust apple a single second, that they do not have their own backdoors in their OS. I can’t prove it, but I bet they scan their customers just as much as google does. They just say they don’t to justify their horrendous prices AND milk them for marketing purposes. Double-wammy.
- S4m_S3p1l@infosec.pubEnglish9 days
You are not “giving the key to the cops” with Apple, I am so sick of seeing this bullshit misinformation online regarding user privacy. iCloud storage now provides the ability for users to store their encryption keys on their own devices locally, see ‘Advanced Data Protection’. On top of that, even Apple doesn’t have the ability to access user encrypted cloud data, because no one besides possibly state level agencies, has the capability to crack AES-256 encryption; hence why it is the industry standard. There was even the famous San Bernadino Legal Case case where Apple flat out denied the FBI a backdoor into a known terrorist’s phone because of the wide-scale security risks it would’ve introduced into their devices. In the end they had to buy a backdoor exploit from an Australian Cyber firm.
Has Apple been notorious for traditionally overspending on advertising, packaging, and hype campaigns to justify higher prices? Absolutely, but in ~2020 Apple realised this wasn’t sustainable (at least for their phones) and made a significant pivot towards more affordable iphones. They first test ran this in 2018 when they launched the iPhone XR for $749 alongside the $999 iPhone XS. Then in 2020 they made the actual pivot with the release of the iPhone SE (2nd Gen) for just $399, placing flagship processing power in an older chasis. Then in 2022 they decided to make the same pivot with their Laptops, and for the first time in modern history, Apple intentionally cultivated a tiered budget laptop strategy.. Then you have the release of the Macbook Neo as recently as last year, and now Apple is now starting to make budget competitive laptop models.
Anyways I sincerely apologise for these massive walls of text, I promise I am not an Apple shill, I have just been extremely passionate about computing hardware and cybersecurity ever since I began my unboxing video and Edward Snowden interview phase as a kid, so I have been following the evolution of the 2010s hardware and digital landscape era for the entirety of my childhood and adolescence; at a certain point, you get sick and tired of seeing people outright lie and spread misinformation that ends up causing people to make terrible misinformed decisions. What I hate more than anything however, is specifically those who end up demotivating people from exercising proper cyber hygiene (because of doomer propaganda), and making terrible product decisions (especially when it comes to Apple) because of historical misalignments with today’s current technology trends (see the .com bubble burst, death of netscape + internet explorer, death of widespread user forums and the corporatisation of the internet, the end of Google’s public perception of innocence, and the rise of ML and AI integration).
If you’re to take anything away from this rant it should be the awareness that the technological landscape is evolving so fast that you can never be certain you’re making an informed decision, without first verifying the validity of whatever beliefs are informing your choice. Something easy you can do, is get into the habit of always asking yourself “Are these beliefs based on current or past facts?”- this line of reasoning has never once failed me my entire life, and I should know considering I’ve been browsing the web for as long as I’ve known how to read.
- Zeon@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Lol, I’m pretty sure I found your Dread account too, weren’t that hard to find 😂
- Zeon@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
Do you really trust these proprietary systems to do what they say they’re doing? Sure, the key may be stored locally, but an OS backdoor or compromise could still exfiltrate it, giving users a false sense of security.
- S4m_S3p1l@infosec.pubEnglish9 days
It’s not about me trusting these proprietary systems, it’s about me trusting mathematics, and basing my decisions off historical facts. Apple can’t just “magic” backdoors into their devices, and since a significant part of their business model has been in pioneering widespread commercial data privacy, it would literally go against their entire business interests. OS backdoors do compromise devices, which is why Apple pays > $1M for bug bounty hunters who find them first.
The problem with you, is that you have no foundational knowledge of how digital devices work, and that’s understandable given how widespread these technologies have become. But trust me when I say, cybersecurity isn’t a multi-billion dollar industry for no reason, individuals and large corporations pay a shit ton of money to guarantee they aren’t shooting in the dark with their systems security & privacy. If you wanna learn more about this stuff, I highly recommend watching Edward Snowden’s video interviews where he talks extensively about what he found in the leaks he made about the NSA, because he’s able to detail a lot about what intelligence agencies can and can’t do when it comes to this stuff.
Keep in mind though, that encryption has been a fundamental game changer which makes it impossible for the CIA even to create a giant search engine that indexes everyone’s data, that was only possible back then because everything was sent in plain text with practically zero wifi security. Now wifi security has become a cybersecurity speciality in and of itself.
- Zeon@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
Saying Apple “can’t” put a backdoor into their own devices is an absolute claim, they’re the ones who control the software, so it’s possible in principle. Business incentives and bug bounties reduce the risks sure, but they don’t eliminate the pressure or legal mechanisms major governments can apply. Snowden’s documents showed that governments have methods to compel or exploit access, and implementation flaws or covert agreements can defeat cryptography in practice.
I do have a solid foundation in how these systems work. You should read the GNU Manifesto and learn about Free Software, it explains why blind confidence in a completely proprietary stack is to remain untrusted. No one should ever be this certain a proprietary system will always respect users rights.
- S4m_S3p1l@infosec.pubEnglish8 days
You are actually retarded if you think you think you know anything about technology after making a ridiculous claim like that. Apple is not putting backdoors in their own systems, show me one shred of evidence. It’s obvious that you are going to AI, putting in your argument, and then paraphrasing whatever random answer you get lmfao. Get outta here.
- Zeon@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
Oh, so we’re going straight to insults because your ego got hurt? That’s cute.
Now explain to me this, how could I possibly show you one shred of evidence if their systems are proprietary? Oh right, I can’t because they don’t provide the source code to nearly any of their software.
See how this works?
