Also not realistic. Even if the UK government didn’t perceive that as fraud, Apple accounts (and most other businesses’ accounts) are region-locked and cannot be transferred elsewhere to prevent going around laws in this way.
This means that every user would also need to make new Apple accounts in their new country of choice and give up any purchases/subscriptions/data in their UK accounts. And possibly need new out of country phone numbers and service as well.
….or a government demanding a way in.
Even your alternative requires someone to give money to a tech conglomerate. There is no perfect alternative this late into capitalism Even if there was, it’s not realistic for millions of Apple devices around the world to suddenly be replaced.
By no means should that discourage anyone reading this from taking action to control your data better, however. I also self-host and am doing everything I can to minimize my reliance on big companies, but there are time, skill and monetary gaps there not everyone can overcome.
Apple’s choices here were:
Do what they did, and remove the feature for the UK only
Create a backdoor into their OS that can potentially be used by not just governments, but bad actors too, effectively crippling security for every single device they sell worldwide and bypassing the usefulness of on-device encryption entirely.
Exit the UK market, which is not realistic and would leave millions of UK customers without any further recourse than to replace their Apple devices, which is incredibly wasteful and expensive (not to mention inconvenient).
Apple chose the lesser evil. What more could you possibly expect in this situation? If you want to protest, protest the government demanding that level of surveillance on their citizens.
Yep. This is exactly what I expected them to do. They don’t want the liability of losing your data or enabling your privacy to be compromised on their devices, and the eroded trust of their customer base from that.
Unfortunately the UK put them between a rock and a hard place here. As shitty as it is, I’m glad they opted to remove the feature for only that market, rather than weaken it for everyone. It sucks, but it’s the lesser evil.
I don’t think they had any good choices here. Just like the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, they decided not to make the device’s OS inherently less secure with the inclusion of a backdoor and I can at least appreciate that much.
Says who? An anonymous source on a paywalled article from a side with a heavy bias?
Because my less biased source already proved otherwise.
At this point you’re just creating headcanon and arguing with that.
Downvoting doesn’t make you any less wrong.
Trump is claiming credit for all of it. Biden is claiming credit for the agreement, while acknowledging Trump was kept informed and is responsible for the implementation.
Anyone with internet access can compare what we know about the plan and what Biden proposed last year and see the similarities.
Just because Trump posted to social media first doesn’t mean he did shit.
Now you’re just grasping at air to try and not be wrong.
lol or you and that articles anonymous sources were wrong….
Its ok to be wrong. I find it kinda funny though that you had to downvote a purely factual article just because you didn’t like the development of the situation.
It can’t be the source because you used the same one 40 minutes ago: https://lemmy.ml/comment/16115856
Although Democrats did completely drop the ball on this and never should have sent Israel anything, we also got the terms of this deal last year from Biden, so there also that.
Oh wait you’re from hexbear. You’ll just double down anyway.
Can’t commit further genocide if there’s nobody left to genocide! 🤡
Dude Trump isn’t even in office yet lol.
Your logic as viewed by everyone else:
“If it’s good, Trump did it. If it’s bad, it’s Biden’s fault.”
PLEASE tell me you’re thinking it through more than this, then let’s have a dialogue about that thought process because I am incredibly curious how you got there.
Kool aid comes in multiple colors.
What makes you think Trump should get the credit?
Biden said his admin and the incoming Trump admin worked together on it, and Trump’s is responsible for the implementation and continuance of the agreement.
Essentially they exist to make the cost of the risk they agree to bear reasonable and affordable to their customers.
The second they fail to serve that purpose they become useless.
Their very existence depends on the same thing that has made them into the shitstains they are: Greed.
Honestly it’s only because dipping your fingers into your drink just seems kinda gross, and with a fork you can fully soak the Oreo.
……I like cookies 😁🍪
You can also just dunk the Oreo and fish it out with the fork ;)
Bonus: the fork can be used to weigh down the Oreo so you can get all the air bubbles out.
Damn you might be right.
I like to put a fork through the filling and dip so I can eat the whole cookie without any dry parts or putting my fingers in the milk, what does that make me?
Last week’s The Rehearsal episode where in order to understand Sully Sullenberger’s state of mind when safely landing his plane into the Hudson he uses his memoir as a guide to backtrack and rehearse his life and major experiences starting as an infant, and progresses through his childhood and early adulthood.
Here’s part 1/3 of the relevant section of the episode but quick warning, it’s pretty weird and shocking even for Nathan Fielder but goddamn that has to be the hardest I’ve laughed at a TV show since Nathan for You:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQtYnkV4in0&pp=ygUTVGhlIHJlaGVhcnNhbCBzdWxseQ%3D%3D