Why are people not more concerned about the UK's recent action towards Apple? The UK asked Apple to grant it access to all data of every global iPhone user around the world. That's huge.

Yes, that means you if you use an Apple phone and you use the iCloud. No matter where you are, The UK wants access to everything about your personal life.

And it gets worse. This isn't just for the UK. The UK has a treaty with other countries like Australia and Canada and the US and are able to instantaneously exchange information amongst themselves.

What the hell is wrong with us that a simple bitcoin price dip suddenly takes all of our attention while these kinds of despicable, disgusting, and insane things are happening around us???

This is like granting a government full access to your house without a warrant or even the courtesy of knocking or even the courtesy of letting you know they're coming in. They can instantaneously access all of your life without you even knowing it. What the hell???

And you can bet this isn't limited to Apple and includes Google Android as well. At least Apple had the decency to leak the request.

So what the hell people, let's stop talking about stupid things like the price of Bitcoin, and let's start really bringing up these kind of topics in our circles.

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What the fuck!! Didn’t see this.. how does one stop this?

Bring it up when you speak to people around you. Speak about it and educate others. Here's an article for your normie friends

https://apnews.com/article/apple-iphone-encryption-britain-cybersecurity-c5c37e99b3b9161dbed24231fbd94746

Thanks very much.. you mentioned Android ? Anyone confirm or deny this? Surely google will also bend the knee… fuck these muppets! Who do they think they are?

No one will confirm or deny this for you. We only know about apple because it was leaked internally.

Fuck sakes!! Surely there are clever people who hate the government smart enough to build stuff they can’t spy on us with… NOSTR seems better than most things

So if you don’t use iCloud you’re cool?

No. Apple products and new Android products have npu chips, neural processing chips that scan everything you do. You're screwed if you use a new phone that uses the ios and android operating systems.

Solution: get a degoogled device and stop being lazy and a prey to "but iPhone is so convenient" mentality.

GrapheneOS?

CalyxOS, graphene, volla phone, etc. Lots of choice

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what about lineageos? no good?

volla.online - web about secure phone but with non-skippable cookie consent...

Most Bitcoiners are cucks that care more about NGU than stick it to the government.

We are all prey to the comforts of the guilded cage that's being built around us. Don't be harsh on others, instead educate them and invite them to the right side of history.

Fucking lazy cucks the whole lot.

Doing what I can but most people sadly don’t like freedom. It comes attached with responsibility.

Taking action and leading has more impact than you can see friend. People will come to you later and ask you questions. They just need to come to their own realizations.

Agree 🤝

Privacy invasion will continue until morale improves.

You’re right. We need alternatives to these platforms. We have GrapheneOS and other projects which are helpful but ultimately we rely on a handful of hardware manufacturers that can be easily tapped by governments to put in backdoors at the hardware layer. It’s happened time and time again [1].

Ideally we’d lower the barrier to simple chip fabrication so we can build basic phones and laptops ourselves. Until then it’s impossible to secure our devices.

1. https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/exploit-used-in-mass-iphone-infection-campaign-targeted-secret-hardware-feature/

I'm getting a mudita kompact phone. There's fairphone, volla phones, etc etc.

You have the ability to take action at the software level, take it and make their lives harder.

Because we feel powerless and rely upon bitcoin to fix this?

You are powerless the instant you believe you are.

Good to point out and talk about this, but not much else to do but stack harder and vote better. BTC fixes this, not insulting plebs.

I disagree. You have a circle of influence and its up to you to bring these topics of discussion up within your circle.

"Voting harder" and bending over and "stacking sats " will lead to more of the same.

We all have power over our own lives and our own circles of influence. You can change your life and banish these rats from your digital home.

I did include 'talk about this' in my comment, but the aggressive and confrontational tone is counterproductive IMO.

Does that include damus private keys?

Where are they stored? I've no idea what you use so I can't say.

I don't use Apple or Google Android. So, ha ha, fuck all y'all.

You don't think you/we should still raise the roof about this happening?

Oh no, I absolutely do. I'm just laughing because I'm not affected. Because my cloud is called a flash drive.

I do not think it worthwhile to spend time trying to get the state to behave. Better spend it getting out of the walled gardens.

I use this kind of news to try to convince more people to install GrapheneOS, Linux etc. And if they use a cloud, do their own encryption on top.

I'm somewhat worried about compromised hardware though. No FOSS alternative there.

I don't use ios or android either. Still bloody angry about this and doing what I can to throw some justice their way

I feel your outrage and I agree its a shame privacy is paramount, thanks for the wake up call and putting some different perspective on the news cycle

Apple is trash regardless of what UK govt does (or any govts, for that matter).

Google isn't any better, but at least we can harden Pixel phones with a better OS.

Good morning

This pretty messed up I don't understand why understand so many people think it's "ok" or "keeping us safer throm the bad guys" (in most cases the people who want this information are the bad guys).

That being said I am not sure how I can start to stand up to it or fight it.

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