This isn't hyperbole. They literally went to the king with gold in hands. There's no WAY they didn't open up their platforms to him.

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luddit3 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Appeasing a moron with a shiny, valuable object is low effort. Covering up and adding a backdoor to Apple's widely used iOS is not in the same ballpark.

	▲	beeflet 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They don't need a backdoor. They can push whatever update to the OS they want. They have a front door.

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Traubenfuchs 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> They literally went to the king with gold in hands.

Exactly what I was thinking about when I was writing my comment.

I can understand that big corpos are not our friends and are purely money driven, but publicly bribing the president with gold is on a level no one ever expected. Right in line with the Fifa peace price.

	▲	derektank 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		IDK, the FIFA world peace prize was completely unsurprising to me. It’s a massively corrupt institution and has been for decades. It’s out of the norm in a US context, for sure, but that kind of thing is penny ante for an organization whose Wikipedia article has multiple subsections on corruption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA?wprov=sfti1#Corruption
	▲	fhdkweig 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And don't forget the $400 million airplane that is probably filled with listening devices that will feed info to all of our enemies.

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DetectDefect 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What is especially insane is people STILL praise Apple for championing "privacy" - after Snowden, after China, after Trump ... the well-engineered sunk-cost fallacy is just too potent to resist, I guess.

	▲	Traubenfuchs 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Magical end to end protection in Meta and Apple (chat) software to protect you from… whom exactly? MAYBE non US governments? They probably have deals with all the big governments allowing them to spy on their own people at least.