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Most likely it is the reason. There were cases of accounts shutdown due to the developers writing reviews from other accounts for their apps on App Store.

"Free market is an economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses."

Monopolies restrict competition, obviously.

From what I read here it’s not a part of RCS standard. Another point is Apple uses their own p2p encryption for Messages, which will not be compatible with others.

I'm willing to bet the RCS bubble will still be green to indicate loss of p2p encryption.

I think they would prefer HEVC for mobile devices and some TV models that don’t support AV1

Netflix is known to experiment and use different codecs. They can switch it in Munich in theory

It isn’t a software patent. Compression method is patentable as an algorithm.

They will have to install an exploit on the target device. The law merely allows that practice.

Yes.

Voting under duress, when a voter is forced to vote in a specific way and make a selfie of them with the filled ballot as proof. It’s solved by allowing to cast the vote electronically as many times as you like until election ends.

Voter suppression. Voting day can be a workday, ballot box can be in a remote location: those factors together remove day workers who can’t take a day off from voting. Partially amended by mail voting, completely eradicated by electronic voting.

And the biggest issue: trust. The less democratic a country is, higher the chance that the electorate commission is dependent on government. There’s no way for a voter in paper based election to check if their ballot was counted in the end. Once again, can be solved with electronic voting.

> Online voting is insecure, period

Starting like that the author saves our time by letting us know that

1. This is a biased take. 2. There will be no attempt to asses overall security, its weak and strong points.

But I still have read it to learn that the author says that paper voting solves security problems. Here’s the bonus point:

3. The author ignores security issues with paper voting.

> rather than recognizing he didn't do the research of modern medicine that would save his life.

Back when Jobs got cancer and the media were discussing it I clearly remember reading that with that type there's higher than 90% death rate.

There's absolutely no legal basis for it. EC technically may risk it and then lose in court.

One big misconception here is the suggestion to clearly mark apps with "good" or "bad" privacy signs on App Store. In reality Apple does not consider apps like Threads "bad" in any sense, as long as those apps don't collect data without explicit user consent.

Also, "they just use fingerprinting" is a myth. Fingerprinting is never ending cat and mouse game between Apple and data collecting companies. In short, fingerprinting is not working reliably if you not actively improving it non-stop while risking App Store ban.

Can you get into more details on why do you think Codable is performance hostile?

I can answer it. I am not against advertisement. I'm against advertisement that does whatever possible to get in the way of viewer trying to watch a creator's content they want to support.

Did you know there were half an hour long advertisement blocks on YouTube? I saw them in long playing videos I turned on for kids. If that doesn't bother you, I don't think it's in my power to explain to you "why people block ads on YouTube".

For many it's not about supporting the platform and creators. YouTube can be unwatchable with ads. I believe this was done in part to push people to purchase premium. Some pay, some block, but nobody thinks the YouTube advertisement business is something done right.

The problem wasn't Swift Codable, the problem was Apple's implementation of JSONEncoder / Decoder on top of Obj-C runtime, which created unnecessary round trips.

It was only fully addressed in Swift 5.9.

I think you are confusing several different aspects of security and privacy here, like iCloud data backups and encrypted local iPhone storage. Apple does have access to iCloud data, but they do not and cannot have access to locally encrypted stuff which is locked behind your personal PIN code. Apple does share iCloud data with law enforcement.

Knowing this allows users to improve their protection and privacy at the cost of convenience. For instance, one can avoid using iCloud altogether, or choose to encrypt iCloud backups.

Login code is used to encrypt this data, so merely "bypassing" wouldn't help. It needs to be brute forced.

If the messages are encrypted locally (an option on iOS), and Celebrite fails to brute force your login code, then yes, they cannot extract Signal messages.

> You do understand that everything you know about iPhone's privacy comes from Apple's mouth, right?

No, we know that from the words of independent security experts.

That's not as simple as it sounds. If the device is locked after reboot (or locked through SOS buttons combo) then it's in a state that cannot be cracked without a series of zero-day vulnerabilities that must be chained together to get in. And the moment Apple learns of any of those vulnerabilities they start patching those, undermining the feasibility of Celebrite and Greykey.

In many cases this is not what happens. An average iPhone doesn't run the very latest iOS, the model might be old as well, and pass code may be super primitive.

The author conveniently forgets to mention that Luck the Landlord game is primarily a slot-machine. Instead, they provide counter examples of games that have slot machine mechanics in them to argue that Play Store policies are applied inconsistently.

You can take a look at Amazon Lumberyard which is free. It's based on CryEngine, which is behind Far Cry.

I think you are right. I vaguely remember French publishers losing revenue after Google News stopped referencing them.

IMO because of the impact they had in the media. I would argue Snowden revelations put privacy and data protection questions on top of the list across the world, for instance.

Apple devices do exactly the same, and has been for many years. I charge my stuff with a third party chargers, all I need is a lightning cable.

She maybe don't understand technology, but I get the feeling that breaking or weakening p2p is not what she talking about. The scanning means scanning performed on the end devices, not of the communications. The idea is to force communication messengers providers to perform scan on end user's device.

That, obviously, will fail, as many (including child predators) will migrate to messengers that don't do that.

Let me just point out how incredibly poor the word "scam" is defined in that dictionary. By that literal definition a lot of different things become scams because they are "clever", dishonest and are about making money.

Remote work would help the author tremendously. He could have enjoyed his favourite countryside without ever needing to go to the office.