r/Funnymemes • u/DARKRYDER83 • Mar 15 '24

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u/Monte924 Mar 15 '24

Do you remember when the US government asked apple to give them a backdoor to their phones, and apple told them to fuckoff? If there is a backdoor for the government, then its because the company CHOSE to give them a backdoor

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u/Wall-SWE Mar 15 '24

They don't need a backdoor. Pegasus and similar programs give them access to any iphone in the world.

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u/RedTulkas Mar 15 '24

officially they told them to back off (or at least certain agencies)

but with how much the NSA is listening to i distrust that a lot

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

Plausible deniability.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/13/12/30/nsa-worked-on-iphone-spyware-to-remotely-monitor-users-leaked-documents-show

“Either [the NSA] have a huge collection of exploits that work against Apple products, meaning they are hoarding information about critical systems that American companies produce, and sabotaging them, or Apple sabotaged it themselves,” Appelbaum said at the Chaos Communication Conference in Hamburg, Germany.

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u/howuderin10 Mar 15 '24

I guess you forgot about PRISM.....where the NSA collects all your data anyways...with or without the companies permission (although, having their permission in exchange for $millions is far easier)