win32k

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by win32k 3y ago
Brought it all on himself. Deserves to rot in jail.
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by win32k 3y ago
Basically, few people are able to escape the "Snowden good, US Gov bad" groupthink and really see what happened with Snowden. The guy was a massive traitor that made the US much, much less safe for probably a very long time. Remem
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by win32k 3y ago
> I didn't realize they would use it against us just blatantly in direct violation of every law put in place to prevent it, though. They didn't. You interpreted the Snowden revelations incorrectly. The government actually cares
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by win32k 3y ago
Groupthink amongst techies. It's amazing how everyone takes Snowden at his word. Literal traitor and they can't see that he has an agenda.
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by win32k 3y ago
Real patriots wouldn't flee the country.
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by win32k 3y ago
Yes. The whole existence of NSO shows that the iPhone is preeminent in platform security. No one pays hundreds of thousands of dollars to access an easily exploitable system.
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by win32k 3y ago
Security is a lot more than just the OS. Modern iPhones have security chips that ensure the integrity of the main OS during boot and while running. A large part of Apple's security excellence comes from their hardware security integrat
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by win32k 3y ago
If anyone thinks any non-Apple platform is more secure than modern iPhone/Macbooks running iOS/macOS, you are dead wrong. Apple's security is far ahead of other platforms.
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by win32k 3y ago
Nice straw man
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by win32k 3y ago
But the Stasi was a secret police in a totalitarian state, not a liberal democracy. Apples to oranges. Good faith actors in government, with intense oversight from elected officials, makes your concerns null and void.
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by win32k 3y ago
Completely agree. When used properly and ethically in a democratic society, surveillance is an absolute net positive for society.
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by win32k 4y ago
Obviously not. Southwest issue isn't even close to having to do with FAA systems. Not everything is a cyber attack... most things are just accidental systems issues.
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by win32k 4y ago
Everything in competition is about time and effort. No one cares if they figure it out 20 years down the road. It literally won't matter at that point, because the US will have much better by then. The world may be a different place, e
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by win32k 4y ago
This is not it.
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by win32k 6y ago
Even though the article you linked is not about an iPhone, I'll respond as if it was, since there have been published iPhone vulnerabilities recently. You rarely hear about Android exploits, since the devices are assumed insecure, wher