wow the level of cope in this thread (thankfully not that many tho) arguing over stats - which are probably made up anyway.

some people can’t handle that most humans just wanna be friends regardless of gov politics bs

innovating or being less wasteful??

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arguing to reduce the population so the privileged can have even more privilege?

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Sorry for my poor phrasing, perhaps re-read my post? i’m entirely supporting your argument. Perhaps your main point aligns most with my #3? It could be argued they’ve already begun from a position of probable bad faith by taking this data from users in the first place.

TLDR edit: I’m supporting the above comment - ie. i do not support apple’s actions in this case.

It’s definitely good for people to learn a bit about homomorphic computing, and let’s give some credit to apple for investing in this area of technology.

That said:

1. Encryption in the majority of cases doesn’t actually buy absolute privacy or security, it buys time - see NIST’s criteria of ≥30 years for AES. It will almost certainly be crackable <oneday> either by weakening or other advances… How many people are truly able to give genuine informed consent in that context?

2. Encrypting something doesn’t always work out as planned, see example:

“DON’T WORRY BRO, ITS TOTALLY SAFE, IT’S ENCRYPTED!!”

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Yes Apple is surely capable enough to avoid simple, documented, mistakes such as above, but it’s also quite likely some mistake will be made. And we note, apple are also extremely likely capable of engineering leaks and concealing it or making it appear accidental (or even if truly accidental, leveraging it later on).

Whether they’d take the risk, whether their (un)official internal policy would support or reject that is ofc for the realm of speculation.

That they’d have the technical capability to do so isn’t at all unlikely. Same goes for a capable entity with access to apple infrastructure.

3. The fact they’ve chosen to act questionably regarding user’s ability to meaningfully consent, or even consent at all(!), suggests there may be some issues with assuming good faith on their part.

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can you please explain in a little more depth? are you saying pluton is basically dead in the water and is likely to disappear from implementations in silicon in the near future?

Here’s why knowing the above i still donate to wikipedia.

Because we don’t want them to be in a position where they take money with strings attached. Imo its good for them to be reminded they serve the public first and foremost.

that’s great buddy. but while recapping basic IT facts might make you feel smart on facebook. this is lemmy where the average user ¹ is perfectly familiar the principles. here it just telegraphs to us that you didn’t read the fucking article (which would’ve taken less time than spamming the thread & insulting users btw).

¹ before the influx of reddit api refugees - on that topic do you ever reflect on how corporate bootlicking might relate to the over-corporatisation of reddit which led to users fleeing? only to come here and do unpaid simping for the corporations, slowly ruining this place too?

perhaps dial back the attitude a bit there? if you think you know better than someone (even if you’re wrong), then you should have no trouble kindly educating instead of insulting them.

you may also wish to revisit your highly questionable claim that graphene properly configured on pixel is less secure than stock rom on some random android device.

+1 for the lockbox idea. with appropriate selection it could also provide (varying degrees of) electromagnetic shielding. useful in general, and increasingly as the line for actual device shutdown becomes more and more blurry.

fascinating, thanks.

no doubt ushered in under some notion of “protecting” us from well funded groups, yet mysteriously didn’t include a minimum threshold so poor folks with $4.25 in their account are still included in these broad sweeping laws.

you are basically correct, and i believe these concerns were raised when that apple patent hit the news.

essentially it boils down to the unpleasant fact that it’s simply currently not required.

1. recording & sharing recordings of such activities has already been outlawed in certain jurisdictions.

2. media & public narrative is already tightly controlled.

3. they already routinely get away with worse crimes against the public for the above reasons.

4. even if a handful of individuals face some vague justice, the public foots the bill with tax payer funded settlements.

one day something similar to that apple patent probably will happen though, especially as corporations merge further with our legal systems, and it’ll be labelled a breach of copyright because their uniforms have sony logos or some such

pretty much, but its really crossing some thresholds lately which i find impressive

+1 for huygen optics, this dude is legit

out of interest, whats the deal with banks needing to know where you sleep at night?

is it a serfdom thing?

or is it only in the case of eg. that being the place you hold a mortgage with them on?

freecad is actually getting fucking good for the price

my guess is its just another flavour of cope.

imo likely because recent history has began to undermine the delusions which were propping up the former flavour.

did anyone read the link?

tldr: i’m not the one making these ridiculous claims, it was a statement made (apparently in earnest) by a loopy politician.

“You would be giving off more CO2 if you are riding a bike than driving in a car,” he said. However, he said he had not “done any analysis” of the difference in CO2 from a person on a bike compared to the engine of a car" 😂

so what they’re really saying is they won’t give it away for free

cycling? but then you’re breathing out more co2 than sitting in a gas guzzling SUV?!!?

don’t you wish i was joking??