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by ptwiggens 4710 days ago
Your post basically amounts to a conspiracy theory.

"It took them 3 days to tell us something happened. Obviously this means they would have kept it secret if it were at all possible."

It takes time to figure out what happened in a breach. That doesn't mean that Apple is some evil company trying to hide the fact that there was a breach.

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No, I made no mention whatsoever about how long it took them to tell us. Did you even read my comment?

> That doesn't mean that Apple is some evil company trying to hide the fact that there was a breach.

I never said that they were trying to hide anything. Again, did you even read my comment?

> Obviously this means they would have kept it secret if it were at all possible.

Well yes, that is logical. A corporation would keep such a thing secret if they had a guarantee that there was no other way people could find out. There are good people working at Apple, but they are not Apple. A corporation doesn't have morals. It will not damage itself and threaten profits just for fuzzy feelings, any more than it will drop the price of the iPhone 6 to $20 because that would be a good thing for the poor.

> if they had a guarantee that there was no other way people could find out

Do you believe this is unique to corporations? Would "real people" always do the right thing even if they had a guarantee nobody would e able to tell?

Yes, many people would. I for one.