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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You mean Time Apple, the man that was renamed by a pedophile and then gave that pedophile a golden gift to appease him?

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Stop acting like giving gold bars to a paedophile is bribery. It was obviously a payment for child prostitution.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

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

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People

[–] lightsblinken@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

yup, and one persons freedom fighter is another person enemy and all that.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

Yeah but we saw how quickly you bowed and kissed the ring of king Trump.

That shit erodes trust.

[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Especially when the cops are the burglars.

[–] LightDelaBlue@jlai.lu 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

but YOU are the one GIVING the key to cops tim.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] LightDelaBlue@jlai.lu 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

resisted? the era they pretend to do it is gone.

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It’s stupid but it’s not back door access to you phone

[–] LightDelaBlue@jlai.lu 0 points 11 hours ago

trus me bro moment.

[–] placebo@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

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.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 138 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] db2@lemmy.world 83 points 1 day ago
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 171 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Why would I leave a key under my mat for the cops in the first place?

[–] DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.world 180 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cops can just knock down the door.

[–] DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.world 89 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, they're used to being able to force their way in anywhere, but in the digital space, many people have steel security doors, and the police don't have a battering ram big enough.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 55 points 1 day ago

Also, kicking down the door leaves evidence and usually require some sort of justification or approval. If they have a key to a backdoor, they don't have to tell anyone they were inside, or ask for permission to use it.

[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 day ago

You wouldn't, but that's what governments are effectively asking be done, lending validity to the analogy.

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[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

Its also aimed at Bill C-22 in Canada that the liberals are trying to speedrun into a law.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 113 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

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)

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[–] foo@feddit.uk 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know it's only a joke, but this comment highlights something that many folk in power seem to forget.

Houses and their doormats are in a single physical location that has an unambiguous legal jurisdiction. In any given country, if you break into a house you are subject to that country's laws.

Not so with the Internet. It's very difficult to legislate for something like this because other countries' laws can just ignore you, and you have no power over those countries and their laws. So, making things physically secure is far more effective than legislation, especially when it comes to the Internet.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

It's not only a joke, it's an analogy to show how stupid the claims of politicians are, that they want to have a backdoor for law enforcement.
Of course the analogy isn't perfect for the reasons you describe, and those reasons makes it actually worse.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t put a key under the mat, even less for the cops.

[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tim Cook wasn't addressing you personally. It's an analogy.

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[–] tourist@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Talk is cheap

Keep pretending that the NSA doesn't already have a million backdoors in your proprietary garbage, Tim.

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[–] kobra@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] hakase@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 day ago

Especially when the cops ARE the burglars in the first place.

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