Oh, here we go again.
Iâll bite. Is the claim that Apple is willingly working with the NSA and that Snowdenâs files prove this or am I missing the point? Or are we just saying that Apple has a backdoor and could be forced by .gov to give up the keys?
ââThe iPhone has special software that can activate itself without the owner having to press a button and gather information about him,â Snowdenâs lawyer told reporters. âThatâs why on security grounds he refused to have this phone.ââ
So Snowden wonât use the iPhone because he believes in special software. Not that he found proof in his files, that he believes it to be so. Thatâs a far cry from âworks with the governmentâ
I am not saying the security switches on the Librem 5 do not have value to me and others. But again, thatâs not why I put my money where my mouth is, I paid for a Librem 5 because I wanted a linux phone. Just the OS alone will allow me to control my phone they way I want and for me to review the code I put on the phone.
When it comes to smart phones with only two choices, Android vs iPhone, Iâll take a iPhone hands down. I pay Apple for services (sure mobile me is free now, but now it is tied to a device that you purchased). While Android is made up of free google services. When a service is free how do they make money, google doesnât provide those services from the goodness of their heart, they need to make money. So in that case YOUR data is the real product. Thanks for signing up and not reading the EULA.
Based on my knowledge, Apple has fought the US .gov tooth and nail anytime the .gov wanted something reveled for them from one of their customerâs devices. So whatâs the problem, that they can do so but have demonstrated that they wonât do so?
Can anyone explain to me how a phone that is turned off can be turned on remotely? Then further demonstrate it? Seriously, I wonât even look that one up as my basic understand of electrical engineering answers the question for me. It would take concerted effort on the developers part to make that so and well if there is no money in it, capitalists wonât bother. Sure I can set up a device that based on some criteria will come out of sleep mode - but âoffâ means something else. No power going to the device. Now this should be easy to test. Open you iPhone, turn it âoffâ and check for power with your multimeter.
My critical thinking brain is engaged whenever someone prefixes a statement with words like âclaimâ or âsupposedlyâ.
Apple claims that the earth is round (spherical), but we all know the truth - donât we?
(Please understand, no offense is intended in my post. I am debating the points made not the people that make them. I chose to not sit here and let these âclaimsâ go unchallenged. Go on then, Iâve got my nomex suit on - flame on.)