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295 points djoldman | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 13:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.382s | source
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solarkraft ◴[06 Nov 24 15:40 UTC] No.42063965[source]▶
Sibling comments point out (and I believe, corrections are welcome) that all that theater is still no protection against Apple themselves, should they want to subvert the system in an organized way. They’re still fully in control. There is, for example, as far as I understand it, still plenty of attack surface for them to run different software than they say they do.

What they are doing by this is of course to make any kind of subversion a hell of a lot harder and I welcome that. It serves as a strong signal that they want to protect my data and I welcome that. To me this definitely makes them the most trusted AI vendor at the moment by far.

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1. 1vuio0pswjnm7 ◴[06 Nov 24 18:57 UTC] No.42067410[source]▶
"Sibling comments point out (and I believe, corrections are welcome) that all that theater is still no protection against Apple themselves, should they want to subvert the system in an organized way. They're still fully in control."

It stands to reason that that control is a prerequisite for "security".

Apple does not delegate its own "security" to someone else, a "steward". Hmmm.

Yet it expects computer users to delegate control to Apple.

Apple is not alone in this regard. It's common for "Big Tech", "security researchers" and HN commenters to advocate for the computer user to delegate control to someone else.