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0 pointstablespoon4y ago0 comments

> Think of it this way: If you want to hide from companies, choose Apple. If you want to hide from the US Government, choose open source.

It's not just the US government: they've been cooperating with the PRC government as well (e.g. iCloud in China runs on servers owned by a state-owned company, and apparently China rejected the HSM Apple was using elsewhere, so they designed one specifically for China). Apple has some deniability there, but I personally wouldn't be surprised if China could get any data from them that it wanted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...

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websites20234y ago

Both the US government and Chinese government can get whatever they want from both iCloud and IMessage. Best not to use it for anything that could make you a target of theirs.

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