Chinese hack shows why Apple is right about backdoors for law enforcement

9to5mac.com

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This is coming from 9to5mac, which is Apple-focused. But it might be fair for it to include a mention that pretty much every security expert says the same thing.

Until they sheepishly admit to implementing and hiding covert systems that provide exactly that at the behest of law enforcement: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...

Apple is quite the fairweather friend when it comes to security.

>> Until they sheepishly admit

> "As with all of the other information these companies store for or about their users, because Apple and Google deliver push notification data, they can be secretly compelled by governments to hand over this information," Wyden wrote.

> Apple has since confirmed in a statement provided to Ars that the US federal government "prohibited" the company "from sharing any information,"

Might have had something to do with it.

At least they're fairly honest about it in places where government mandated backdoors aren't kept under wraps: https://support.apple.com/en-us/111754

Further evidence that Apple is simply right about everything they do, even when their actions directly contradict how they market their brand!

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