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This is a bit late, but I thought I'd weigh in on Apple v FB
10 years ago
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Oddly contentious issue that. Its not a huge surprise where I stand.
I've never been a fan of the rhetoric of fear and the slow erosion of civil liberties that fear inevitably leads to. I find it interesting how even of a split the polling data has been showing. I choose to take that as a sign that people are at the very least starting to seriously think about the implications of sacrificing everything at the alter of security.
I'm not a huge fan of our reliance on black box technology, so please don't take my endorcement of apple's position as an endorcement of their platform nessisarily. Its a perfectly fine platform and I'm glad that they are making some token resistance to governmental pressures. I have to, however, point to their behavior in China and other developing markets. I don't want to endorse a notion that apple is doing anything other than securing safe positions in order to secure long term market share, but I will say that I support their right to refuse to develop a crackkng utility for their phones.
We need to be careful as to what powers we give. The power to compell anyone to develop the means by which to render their work null and void is very broad one. Much more so when that work also puts the security of the entire platform at risk.
I've never been a fan of the rhetoric of fear and the slow erosion of civil liberties that fear inevitably leads to. I find it interesting how even of a split the polling data has been showing. I choose to take that as a sign that people are at the very least starting to seriously think about the implications of sacrificing everything at the alter of security.
I'm not a huge fan of our reliance on black box technology, so please don't take my endorcement of apple's position as an endorcement of their platform nessisarily. Its a perfectly fine platform and I'm glad that they are making some token resistance to governmental pressures. I have to, however, point to their behavior in China and other developing markets. I don't want to endorse a notion that apple is doing anything other than securing safe positions in order to secure long term market share, but I will say that I support their right to refuse to develop a crackkng utility for their phones.
We need to be careful as to what powers we give. The power to compell anyone to develop the means by which to render their work null and void is very broad one. Much more so when that work also puts the security of the entire platform at risk.
