Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store

Post by DiogenesKynikos » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 9:41 PM UTC

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There's also the risk that the US President might unilaterally ban American corporations from doing any business with you. Through secondary sanctions, that ban will extend to corporations around the world. The US has arbitrarily cut off entire countries from the world market, including Iran and Venezuela, and it has cut off individual corporations as well, including Huawei and ZTE. Everyone here seems to be up in ar…

No, I don't think there's any risk to Americans or American corporations that the president will unilaterally ban American corporations from doing business with me, an American There is a very real risk to me, an American, that the products or services sold to me by an American corporation will be degraded or changed at the request of the CCP in exchange for that corporations continued access to the Chinese market Do…

Post by computerex » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 9:52 PM UTC

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So you can of course side load apps more easily on Android, but it isn’t super easy. I guess that matters less when people are motivated. But... if this statement were true in spirit as well then why don’t we see google seizing this PR opportunity and making statements about the superiority of their App Store’s more liberal model? Why do we instead see Google quietly removing HK-protest related apps too? I guess the…

I remember when Google's motto was "Don't be evil". Sad to see these companies teaming up with authoritarian dictatorships actively involved in keeping ethnic groups in concentration camps and harvesting the organs of political prisoners.

Post by computerex » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 9:55 PM UTC

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Can Android kick out APKs that are side-loaded? And if they can, what stops a user from swizzling identifiers for the APK and reinstalling it?

The problem with Android is its mostly closed nature, so there are multiple places where malicious software could be placed by design, system apps and to a greater degree device drivers being the first obvious choice. By malicious I mean software that limits or acts against the user choices, not necessarily behaving like a virus.

Post by yeahforsureman » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 9:57 PM UTC

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> right now giving up some of their freedom looks like a good deal to them. Getting that freedom back once the deal sours will be very hard, and get much harder each year as surveillance and repression grow.

As much as this seems like a foreign concept to westerners, most Chinese citizens (outside of the European provinces) simply do not care about it the way westerners do. To GP's point, their lives have and continue to improve, with the fastest growing middle class this decade. And before you project western ideals on China and start doomsaying about their impending economic collapse, understand that people have been s…

Post by saagarjha » Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 10:00 PM UTC

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Not all that relevant, but with the new BootROM exploit you may be able to do this at some point.

I expect that won't happen. Maybe as a proof of concept, but not as something anyone would ever want to use daily. Documentation on iPhone hardware is basically nonexistent. Someone would need to reverse engineer it all and write drivers from scratch.