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Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. (www.bbc.com)
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[–] 43 points 3 years ago (11 children)

Other than their asinine charging cable/accessory situations I consistently find myself agreeing with Apple pretty much any time any government body or group is mad they won't do something.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    how do you reckon?

    only time they have been on the consumer's side was with regards to privacy, refusing to comply with the FBI and now this.

    everything else they are pretty anti-consumer, off the top of my head

    • first to remove jack 3.5 (even though I don't really care about this, others do.)
    • sticking to shitty lightning cable so they can sell overpriced cables
    • the charger thing with the EU
    • worst of all entirely against right to repair
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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago*

    Bluetooth provides another vector of attack for the convenience. There is already quite a list of known vulnerabilities. Yes, many of these get patched but as the open standard evolves, so do the hackers. You could turn it off entirely, plug in a cable & forget all that if all you wanted to do was use audio/video.

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