btmoo

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[–] btmoo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Even more aggregious is the EU's audacity to declare that tech companies must be horizontally integrated. What's next, are they going to go after Nintendo?

[–] btmoo@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago

As an Apple fan, I do not want what these governments are pushing. Apple is vertically integrated. As a consumer, I like that. So is Nintendo, and your favorite car company, etc.

We don't need to use the law to force Apple to horizontally integrate. If Apple's charging too much, just say so and force them to lower it.

[–] btmoo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

how does bg3 play on a non-pro/max machine? Is it doable?

[–] btmoo@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the links! I enjoyed reading about how iMessage is built on top of APN. That probably explains why I can reply to messages in arbitrary apps on my Apple Watch. :-)

However, that doesn't change my argument. Beeper is not a trusted party in this exchange. When they show my messages to their users, they are decrypting my messages and user activity in a way that is outside my zone of trust. They can then be nice and show it to their users in their app, or they can be nefarious and send that data to any other 3rd party for whatever purposes they want.

This is a major security hole at the application layer, despite the network layer security that you've linked to.

[–] btmoo@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

That's not what they're doing. They're using Apple's version for free. They're also encouring their users to violate their terms of service agreements with Apple en-masse.

[–] btmoo@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago (9 children)

A non-trusted 3rd party that has the capability to decrypt messages? It's a big problem.

[–] btmoo@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (17 children)

It's also a huge security hole

[–] btmoo@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (20 children)

It's not a public API. Hacking someone's private API is already against law - charging $$ for it moreso.

[–] btmoo@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I feel like conversatives just learn first principals and stop there. It's kinda sad. The FCC, FTC, etc exist in order to keep our markets fair and consumer friendly.

This weird, free-trade utopia that they dream about does not exist, has never existed, and cannot exist. Instead when you remove all the regulation, you get anarchy like we see today in many 3rd world countries.

I would love to see our government get more efficient and targetted with its regulation, but to simply argue against it is extremely naive.

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