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Comment by smoldesu | Hacker News Reader

Considering that both Google and Apple are cardholding members of PRISM, it sounds like a bit of a frying pan vs fire situation to me.

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Its still fewer backdoors and more controlled.

More controlled by who?

Apple. They now gatekeep access rather than it being open to anyone with the money to hack the platform.

So, we should feel safe knowing that Apple is protecting us from the wrong governments and working with the right ones? Considering how attached they are to the Chinese market, one would be forgiven for assuming Apple too is motivated by money over ethical responsibility.

Better just apple than apple + hackers. Not ideal but incremental progress is still progress.

It will never be ideal while Apple's ethics are so soft. Let's help them do the right thing.

Yes, but that's OUR surveillance and we're cool with that

Id rather be spied on by foreigners who couldn't do anything about my eccentricities even if they cared.

When you're own government's security services are spying on you, they own you.

The options weren't foreign government or local government, the current state is both, the future is local only. It's clearly an improvement.

These security exploits also get used by local police who wouldn't have access to the top government access used for terrorists.

They'll use the data to influence your next election. Just look at Moldova, who is infiltrated with Russian spies and dirty money. They've lost the last election but the country is paralysed by corruption.

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