This Tim Cook?
*Tim Apple
Yeah but we saw how quickly you bowed and kissed the ring of king Trump.
That shit erodes trust.
Also Tim cook quote, “you’re so great Mr. Trump, we had an army man, nake you a special trophy just for you. The base is literally a gold bar that I’m illegally giving you. Isn’t that fun, you’re so great trump. Thank you trump. I love you trump. It’s such a joy to socialize with you trump”
Sightly paraphrased
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.
yup, and one persons freedom fighter is another person enemy and all that.
One fascist boot-licker downvoted me. Hey fascist, no one here likes you.
You mean Time Apple, the man that was renamed by a pedophile and then gave that pedophile a golden gift to appease him?
Stop acting like giving gold bars to a paedophile is bribery. It was obviously a payment for child prostitution.
Talk is cheap
Keep pretending that the NSA doesn’t already have a million backdoors in your proprietary garbage, Tim.
Considering they are sending all of your iOS activity back to themselves without encryption, to track you for ad serving, yep.
So where’s the actual story with the ’provided screenshots’? This article is just some rando saying things.
Clicking links is difficult, I get it. Here, I did that for you:
Cool thanks. This doesn’t appear in the original article you provided and when I searched the only result for the topic was that article.
It does you just have to click through to the source cited by Thom. Click the link halfway down the OSnews article, “Michael Tsai, quoting Mysk”, then in the resulting article click the link that says “Mysk”. That takes you to the Xitter post by Mysk with the screenshot and description (I ran it through Xcancel so as not to endure Xitter’s shitty site).
Ahhh I did click that but was viewing on my phone and it loaded to halfway through the comments and I thought it had just dumped me in a forum discussion. 🤦♂️
Oh weird, it didn’t do that to me before but trying it again now it does the same thing to me. Apologies for the snark.
This article is based on… a random twitter post that it does not even link to? I’d like to see concrete data supporting this claim.
Whole article be like: source: trust me bro
It sounds like you trust Apple. I don’t
From 2022: Apple sued for tracking users’ activity even when turned off in settings The iPhone maker knows a lot about what a user does on their phone.
App developers and security researchers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry from the software company Mysk recently found that iOS sends “every tap you make” to Apple from inside one of the company’s own apps. According to the developers, attempts to turn this data collection off, such as selecting the Settings option “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether” did not affect the data from being sent.
https://mashable.com/article/apple-data-privacy-collection-lawsuit
From 2026: Apple plans to change its Hide My Email privacy feature that could make it less effective
Apple said in a note to developers on Monday that in the coming weeks the company will move its anonymously generated email addresses to @private.icloud.com, effectively making it easier for apps and websites to know that an email address is private and block users from signing up.
Existing addresses will continue to function and forward mail without interruption, Apple said in the note to developers. The company added that app and email providers would have to update their filtering to ensure that emails to customers who rely on the feature continue to go through.
Several Apple users on Reddit criticized the change to the email domain, saying it would make it more difficult to use the service.
From 2026: Siri AI may be privacy-first, but the new ‘personal-context understanding’ features really creep me out
Here’s the thing. it doesn’t actually matter how secure Apple makes its AI, I’m still not too keen on it being able to dive into the depths of my phone to score for data. It doesn’t matter if the goal of that is to hand over some random piece of potentially-helpful information when it thinks I might need it.
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/apple-intelligence/articles/siri-ai-may-privacy-first-051500606.html
I don’t trust Apple, but I also don’t blanket distrust them. Of those three articles you posted, the only one that gives me pause is the one from 2022 where Apple was sending App Store navigation data back home. I have NEVER trusted the App Store. It has been intentionally hard to use, using dark patterns, and tracking usage ever since iPhone OS 2. Unfortunately for the researchers, it has also been very clear about this; it’s essentially a website that can only be accessed with their custom client.
Up until recently, I’ve mostly trusted Apple because their business goals align with my personal goals; breaking that trust would only harm them without providing any benefit. Recently however, the services arm of the company has gone more aggressively into advertising; I don’t trust ANYTHING from Apple that’s linked to advertising, which now includes not only the App Store, iCloud, Books, News, Stocks, Fitness, Podcasts, Apple Music and Apple TV, but also Apple Maps.
I think it’s important to note that quote was from 2015.
So this was before he just made gurgling noises with Trump’s ball sack in his mouth like he does now.
but YOU are the one GIVING the key to cops tim.
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.
resisted? the era they pretend to do it is gone.
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.
It’s stupid but it’s not back door access to you phone
trus me bro moment.
That we know of
If Apple were truly serious about an individual’s security and privacy, they’d facilitate self hosted online services as peers to the versions they provide on their platforms.
They can be best in class at what they do, but exclusively locking everyone into their ecosystem obliterates any meaningful good will.
Doesn’t apple backdoor UK users anyway?
I don’t think they went through with it.
I remember reading a related article reclaimthenet
This same Home Office served Apple with a secret order, a Technical Capability Notice, demanding a backdoor into end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups, first for every human on the planet and later, after Washington threw a tantrum, for British users alone. Secret being the operative word, since the law gagged Apple from so much as admitting the order existed.
Apple’s answer was to rip its strongest encryption out of the UK entirely rather than build the thing, sniffing that it has “never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services,” and the fight is still grinding through the courts. That is the track record of this government, one that asks one company, in the dark, to dismantle encryption for an entire nation is not a government you hand a camera-side scanner and trust to use it gently.
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.
Oh an btw I decide what guilty means. Open up your curtains.
Especially when the cops are the burglars.
40% of Cops
Its also aimed at Bill C-22 in Canada that the liberals are trying to speedrun into a law.
If you’re Canadian, please sign this petition against Bill C-22:
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7416
Already signed, took very little time.
I don’t put a key under the mat, even less for the cops.
Tim Cook wasn’t addressing you personally. It’s an analogy.
The analogy presumes you want cops to have free access to your home
If you don’t want the cops to have access to your home that means you have supporting to hide which means that can get a search warrant
