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Comment sideloading control and 3rd party stores (Score 2) 16

Google is now adding more rules to make sideloading more difficult while Apple never provided a way to sideload an app in the first place. People need to be able to build and load their own apps without permission from the OS manufacturer, a phone is a computer with specialized hardware, we do have ability to build and run apps on our own hardware.

Comment Re: Idiots, all of them (Score 1) 41

Lolol of course they can. The data doesn't actually belong to the intermediary and it certainly doesn't belong to iron mountain. It's good that they required a court order, because the party requesting the data is not the party that provided it, but it's still the PBS station's data and they still have a right to it.

Comment Re: A different kind of security (Score 2, Interesting) 53

See that's the narrative that Americans love to tell themselves. But in reality the Chinese know that hidden backdoors don't stay hidden, and their national interest is best served by making software and devices secure for everyone. They don't need to spy on their citizens with secret software backdoors when cameras are on every corner and social credit records are openly implemented.

They saw the idiotic attempts the Americans made with stuff like the clipper chip. They won't make that same mistake.

Comment Re: The Satanic Verses (Score 1) 53

Microsoft's roots run deep, and into the hearts of corporations and governments. Linking the hot thing of the moment into that plant, however badly, is what separated Microsoft from IBM. Big Blue's massive and iconic familiarity was the result of a happy accident they did their level best not to repeat, while Microsoft was always and remains happy to play to the demands of the moment to the detriment of security and reliability. Nothing has ever really changed with Microsoft regardless of CEO except that they've become more willing to throw things away and start again — but of course they still make the transitions from one thing to the next in the same way in which they do every thing: with hands of ham.

Good thing for them lock-in works!

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