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by ubersync 2546 days ago
Lol, fanboys downvoting my comment, even though it is totally possible. Even my last comment 28 days ago, which was incidentally against Apple but factually true, was also downvoted. Looks like hacker news is being plagued with fanboys who can't take any valid criticism of their dear Apple Inc.

Edit: when I wrote this comment, my original comment was at -4 points.
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GoofballJones 2546 days ago
It’s not the same. These are border guards easily putting spyware on Android phones, since it’s a feature of Android (to load programs). With iOS, you’d have to jailbreak it first, which isn’t a trivial thing to do “while you wait” at the border.

That’s all.

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ubersync 2546 days ago
You don't need to jailbreak if you have an Apple signed App, which the Chinese Govt. can theoretically force Apple to provide.
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arcticbull 2546 days ago
Will you not see it on the launch screen?

I mean, if you wanted a hidden, non-standard launchd type app, you'd have to modify the filesystem, install it, they'd need to create special tooling to do so, and modify the updaters to preserve it across an iOS update, etc. All without anyone at Apple speaking out.

Apple refused to create an unlock tool for the US government that was a one-off, to create spyware for China seems like they last thing they'd do. Could they? I guess. Once detected - and it definitely would be (as this was), or leaked by employees - Apple would get bowled over by buyers and the stock market. It's just not in their interests. Their current business model is selling privacy.

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GoofballJones 2546 days ago
Then we need a story like this article confirming that do this too. So far the evidence points to “no”, but that isn’t enough. The transparency report from Apple needs to report this as well.
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9HZZRfNlpR 2546 days ago
Apple is just gonna remotely ship it to you. You can't do business in China without bending over to government. If they want malware there then there will be one.
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dang 2545 days ago
Would you please read the site guidelines? They ask you not to post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

These biases are in the eye of the beholder. People with opposite feelings about Apple (or whatever the corp of the moment is) see exactly the opposite bias.

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