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by swiley 2028 days ago
These security features are only nominally about protecting the user. Apple implements them to protect their services and platforms from competition and sells them via the privacy argument.

Does it happen to improve the security situation? Yes, for many people it does. Is it worth the cost? That's debatable, especially because of Apple's apparent apathy (and occasional hostility) towards the community.
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heavyset_go 2028 days ago
> These security features are only nominally about protecting the user. Apple implements them to protect their services and platforms from competition and sells them via the privacy argument.

Stallman[1] and others[2] have talked about just this issue for over a decade now.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html

[2] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

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matthewmacleod 2028 days ago
This is explicitly untrue.
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