Dear Apple, I'm sorry because I realise it's not really your fault, but I don't trust that the NSA haven't nobbled you, and nothing you have said so far leads me to
um think different, as it were.
Introducing the iPhone 5S! Brought to you in partnership with the NSA.
My reaction to the video was a positive feeling about their clever and earnest privacy cornerstone they've come up, but then you guys reminded me that's all BS. You brought me back to reality. The state of things that has been revealed to us this summer makes anything possible. Our government has erected a fortress of silence, classifying their crimes and threatening jail (and who knows, maybe threatening humiliation via nsa data) for anybody that fails to keep their crimes secret.
Anything could be compromised by anybody. rogue agents can sell the back doors. Maybe even the dreaded Chinese-Inserting-back-doors-in-hardware threat, that our government likes to talk about, is happening, as the nsa lies about doing it themselves. Anybody could be doing it. I'm not making a case that there's any way to stop it. it would just be nice if we weren't being forced by our government to literally fund the effort.
From what I've read, they've built a system of weaknesses into our worldwide system to maintain trust on the Internet, a big part of our lives. My guess is that this system is no well-considered and controlled tool to fight terrorism. it's capabilities will be and are a tool for those caught up in the immense and barely concealed raging power struggle that is a world of governments with centralized limitless power. If they catch a couple terrorists, it's just a bonus to some extent. half the stories about who they've stopped or caught are probably half-lies anyway, now that we know for sure they routinely lie. I'm more convinced than ever that like 80% of these governments' real activities, expenditures, and results only serve this struggle- the struggle by the key people that make up these institutions, to gain power and hold onto it. that includes their reach into the 'private sector'; their cohorts throughput nearly all industry and the paths of and fighting for skewed benefits (skewed to the connected, not the needy) that trickle down from government mandate through all walks of life. It's not a conspiracy or rocket science, it's a bedrock of their motivation for getting involved. What if our collectively inbred and imagined need for very large amounts of central planning is simply wishful thinking and arrogance and/or an intrinsic affect of our place in the power struggle everybody has created. We're moving toward this reality: it's a mad dash for the power we've packed into Washington and you're a sucker and you're going to lose if you don't play the game, and play as hard as you can. Look at political reality in China.
I fear we may be at the mercy of the least desirable attributes of nerds and cops. they've teamed up.
also, I gonna get a 5s. I love the Touch ID. I love apple. I wish Steve was still around.
sorry, I'm probably breaking forum rules/ranting. I promise to chill out.
