….or a government demanding a way in.

Even your alternative requires someone to give money to a tech conglomerate. There is no perfect alternative this late into capitalism Even if there was, it’s not realistic for millions of Apple devices around the world to suddenly be replaced.

By no means should that discourage anyone reading this from taking action to control your data better, however. I also self-host and am doing everything I can to minimize my reliance on big companies, but there are time, skill and monetary gaps there not everyone can overcome.

Apple’s choices here were:

1. Do what they did, and remove the feature for the UK only

2. Create a backdoor into their OS that can potentially be used by not just governments, but bad actors too, effectively crippling security for every single device they sell worldwide and bypassing the usefulness of on-device encryption entirely.

3. Exit the UK market, which is not realistic and would leave millions of UK customers without any further recourse than to replace their Apple devices, which is incredibly wasteful and expensive (not to mention inconvenient).

Apple chose the lesser evil. What more could you possibly expect in this situation? If you want to protest, protest the government demanding that level of surveillance on their citizens.

Yep. This is exactly what I expected them to do. They don’t want the liability of losing your data or enabling your privacy to be compromised on their devices, and the eroded trust of their customer base from that.

Unfortunately the UK put them between a rock and a hard place here. As shitty as it is, I’m glad they opted to remove the feature for only that market, rather than weaken it for everyone. It sucks, but it’s the lesser evil.

I don’t think they had any good choices here. Just like the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, they decided not to make the device’s OS inherently less secure with the inclusion of a backdoor and I can at least appreciate that much.

One more time and it’s a pattern.

Fuckin eww.

I’m currently driving a loaner Tesla….got yelled at charging it today to “sell your stupid fuckin car!!”

I’m fine with having no sympathy, but the harassment and calls for vandalism I’ve seen on some posts is a little extreme.

Would it be asking too much to direct the criticism at Tesla themselves? Not everyone can afford to get out of the car they’re driving (or like me, are driving one due to circumstance), and being an asshole to them isn’t productive.

For the record, I hate this car.

Concepts of a recipe.

lol totally fair.

Just glad it’s getting posted at all, fuck the Oligarchs 😍

Yeah whatever the form, they didn’t get there without underpaying someone.

Why is this in shitpost it’s true

https://x.com/joncoopertweets/status/1859602254577230289

That’s not rice, that’s maggots you’re eating!

Larvae, larvae, larvae……

Ok but Freddy got Fingered is legitimately a work of art.

Thank you for proving my original comment.

Someone seems upset.

What solutions are you formulating and implementing? And which ones am I in the way of by commenting on a lemmy post?

Clearly you have all the answers. Teach me, o wise one.

There’s that division I mentioned.

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One more way to keep us all divided and distracted from the real shit going on.

Even Pied Piper didn’t scale.

Sherman Tanz finally bought a president.