This seems pretty troubling, as I as well as many I suppose, trust Apple and think that they're one of the good guys. I know it's cliché but I think this is the part where "[..] live long enough to see yourself become the villain." applies.
The more important question, imho, then is: what can we do about it ? If nothing, what should be done ?
Use Linux? How do you trust that? QubesOS? Pen and paper?
If you walk outside, you’re on camera. Living off grid with no phone or computer seals the deal, but not very practical.
I’m all about security and privacy, but everything is on balance with practically. If a three digit govt agency wants to find you, they have so many other ways than Apple.
Please think about things before aimlessly countering someone's question.
At the end of the day it all still boils down to trust based on reputation, incentives and oversight. Openness is important but no panacea.
The point is, there’s potentially back doors in everything, including the C compiler that built your Linux kernel.
Further what if it happened we were unsatisfied with this we could all collectively hire more people to audit the software stacks we rely on in order of priority instead of expecting each person to hire dozens to vet the software they are presently running.
Further if only even if we can't ever arrive at 100% surety we can get closer and closer to satisfaction.
You mean like what Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. already do?
ps aux | wc 177 44
Don't bother leaving that disease ridden hag covered in boils you can't possibly invest the resources to sequence the full genome of this clean looking young lady over here it all comes down to trust amirite.
Does anyone know of a distro that focuses on usability and privacy"? Subgraph is still in alpha...
Heck, do the common DEs sandbox their search indexing processes yet, given there's been various vulnerabilities there previously?
Yes, okay, you have control, but when nobody implements relatively basic defence-in-depth mitigations that have been available on Windows (especially) and macOS for over a decade it's just sad and undermines the argument that its security is better.
Can't argue with that.
I find it ironic that one of the features removed starting with Win7 was the network activity indicator in the system tray. Of course, recent Apple hardware and software has no indicators either. The opaqueness is unsettling.
I'd say you use as much privacy respecting hardware/software as is feasible given your present use case and circumstances and progressively look to improve this situation funneling your money towards people and projects that respect you and your privacy in order to encourage people to build the things you need.
If you already have expensive hardware that doesn't work with open source software I don't think it terribly reasonable to suppose you throw it in the trash for example.
Just buy something better next go round.