http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/21/nsa-leaker-edward-snowden-refuses-to-use-apples-iphone-over-spying-concerns---report This is Apple not allowing the FBI to do what they've allowed the NSA to do since 2012 or before. Before you get too pat-on-the-back-ey, recognize that they're making a big show of standing up in public when in private they rolled over without so much as a whine.Apple was one of the first companies accused of participation in the NSA's PRISM data mining initiative, following Snowden's release of hundreds of classified NSA documents. The PRISM project is said to have involved the extraction of "audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time."
I can relate I'll take a late change of heart to no change of heart. Or maybe he's just lying through his teeth and telling the masses what they want to hear whilst secretly stashing the dick pics of college kids everywhere... I'll hope for the former.recognize that they're making a big show of standing up in public when in private they rolled over without so much as a whine.
Sure, but I'd rather the symbolic gestures be genuine, rather than Apple trying to save face in front of the public. As it stands now, I don't trust Apple any more than I did before this post, I just know that they're not selling my privacy this once. It doesn't mean anything when they're already selling it in other ways.
You shouldn't trust Apple. You should trust that Apple doesn't want to get caught willingly collaborating with the intelligence community against its users again, as since it has become widely known that American tech companies collaborate with American intelligence agencies customers overseas have been looking for alternatives, as if tech companies in every country didn't collaborate with their countries' intelligence agencies because while you can slam the door in the faces of the guys with all the guns, you can't expect it to work. They put up a token resistance to salvage some of their reputation, but in the process reinforce that this is a thing that should be resisted, and they have a big enough mouthpiece that that isn't nothing.