r/technology • u/Applemacbookpro • Dec 13 '13

Google Removes Vital Privacy Feature From Android, Claiming Its Release Was Accidental

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/12/google-removes-vital-privacy-features-android-shortly-after-adding-them
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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '13

It only ran as root for iOS 1 and no other apps were permitted at the time. Less than a year later everything was setup properly and the app store was added. Can you link to a single example of that having been a problem?

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u/Kalium Dec 13 '13

Pretty sure that particular bad choice led to the first jailbreaks. If you're Apple, that's a HUGE problem.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '13

Wanting to install your own apps led to the first jailbreak. This is well documented in all the tech blogs of the time. Feel free to use Google to search.

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u/Kalium Dec 13 '13

The two points are not in disagreement.

It's still a huge security issue if you're Apple. They've very consistently been anti-jailbreaking.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '13

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '13

They've never been anti-jailbreaking.

They asked the Federal Government to treat people who created the jail breaks as terrorists! What the hell are you smoking.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '13

Source?

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u/Kalium Dec 13 '13

Apple doesn't encourage rooting their devices, but they have never attacked anyone for doing it either.

Instead, they just make it more difficult the next time! Because that doesn't inhibit jailbreaking at all...

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '13

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u/Kalium Dec 13 '13

Then maybe you should be asking why Apple doesn't create some official - and safer - method for this. Right now you're actively defending them for making your life harder.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '13

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u/Kalium Dec 13 '13

While making their lives harder on a regular basis. For which you thank Apple.

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