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Apple seems to strongly discourage the use of lockdown mode. Presumably it is in conflict with their concern over share price and quarterly earnings.
Didn’t they make it?
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> It's a real world example of how these security features aren't just for "paranoid people" but serve a legit purpose for people who handle sensitive info. Because they're in the US things might be easier from a legal standpoint for the journalist, but they also have precedent on forcing journalist to expose their sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branzburg_v._Hayes In other parts of the world this applies http…
Which countries actually grant reporters immunity from having to reveal information related to criminal investigations (where others would be compelled to, and without criminal penalties)? Such immunity may be desirable (at least in some circumstances), but I am not aware of any jurisdiction that actually grants it.
In serious crime cases in some circumstances a court may order a journalist to reveal sources. But it's extremely rare and journalists don't comply even if ordered.
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A4hdesuoja
Edit: the source protection has actually probably never been broken (due to a court order at least): https://yle.fi/a/3-8012415
Remember...they can make you use touch id...they can't make you give them your password. https://x.com/runasand/status/2017659019251343763?s=20 The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it.
Reminder that you can press the iPhone power button five times to require passcode for the next unlock.
Remember...they can make you use touch id...they can't make you give them your password. https://x.com/runasand/status/2017659019251343763?s=20 The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it.
Reminder that you can press the iPhone power button five times to require passcode for the next unlock.
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Lockdown mode significantly effects the usability of the phone. It completely disables JIT js in Safari for example.
"Don't secure your phone it might mess up JavaScript" is not something I had on my 2026 bingo card.
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Apple seems to strongly discourage the use of lockdown mode. Presumably it is in conflict with their concern over share price and quarterly earnings.
Citation needed? Apple does a lot of things I don't agree with in the interest of share price (like cozying up to authoritarian governments) but this seems like a reach to criticize them for a feature they have put extensive effort into, rather than applauding that they resist spying and enhance customer privacy. Sure, it's an optional feature and maybe they don't push broad acceptance of it, but it's important for t…
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I wonder if it's actual users with dormant accounts who just setup their Moltbot?
Some, maybe, but that's just another nice layer of plausible deniability. The truth is that the internet is both(what's the word for 'both' when you have three(four?) things?) dead, an active cyber- and information- warzone and a dark forest. I suppose it was fun while it lasted. At least we still have mostly real people in our local offline communities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet%2C_nobody_know...
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Absolutely every aspect of it? What’s so hard about adding a feature that effectively makes a single-user device multi-user? Which needs the ability to have plausible deniability for the existence of those other users? Which means that significant amounts of otherwise usable space needs to be inaccessibly set aside for those others users on every device—to retain plausible deniability—despite an insignificant fractio…
> despite an insignificant fraction of customers using such a feature? Isn't that the exact same argument against Lockdown mode? The point isn't that the number of users is small it's that it can significantly help that small set of users, something that Apple clearly does care about.
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Absolutely every aspect of it? What’s so hard about adding a feature that effectively makes a single-user device multi-user? Which needs the ability to have plausible deniability for the existence of those other users? Which means that significant amounts of otherwise usable space needs to be inaccessibly set aside for those others users on every device—to retain plausible deniability—despite an insignificant fractio…
> despite an insignificant fraction of customers using such a feature? Isn't that the exact same argument against Lockdown mode? The point isn't that the number of users is small it's that it can significantly help that small set of users, something that Apple clearly does care about.