Oddbean

If they want that kind of control, then they can create and issue their own devices. I don't give two fucks about politics, public data, or otherwise because secret is secret, private, if you will. Government's /always/ gonna be after you and will do every bit of due diligence they possibly can to prevent further violence & non-violence against it. The State protects itself first, at all costs.

Regardless, at the end of the day once you grant consent to this the game is over. If you agree to their rules, you mustplay by them. Don't agree with them. Make their investigations totally fruitless.

Apple can open it for them if they wanted. The article claims they couldn’t if they wanted. https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/exploit-used-in-mass-iphone-infection-campaign-targeted-secret-hardware-feature/ This was patched but you know they just altered it to close what was known to outsiders while keeping their own access

phones aside, the cloud 🔒 will remain and access will not be granted. private material is not political fodder and geopolitical elections are not excuses for discovery. the precedent for imprisoning and mining opposition is dangerous, pervasive, fascist, and unethical. and it will stop.

Thankyou Jack for highlighting this issue. For everyone asking what is he pointing out at, here are my two cents 1) Democracy all around the world is in danger, the people in power are willing to go to any limit to crush their opponents and hence the need for decentralised networks like bitcoin and nostr. 2) The centralised networks/corporations, like apple and X(twitter) are facing extreme pressure from governments all around the world to bend their knee and in this case Apple has declined to do so(for the time being) . As a Indian who is worried about the future of my country Thank-you Jack.

The last profit of the UK's BTC money laundering case was managed by the British government of 61,000 BTC. Two Chinese illiterate women ended their business by fraud and helping Chinese officials with money laundering.

BTC洗钱案当英国警察注意中国女人温简试图从她的iPhone上删除应用程序时，他们要求她交出手机。另一部iPhone的手机壳里有两张500欧元的钞票和一张手写的纸条，上面有密码列表。调查人员在数字钱包中发现了超过61000枚比特币。这是英国执法部门有史以来缴获的最大数量的比特币之一。按照最新价格，每枚比特币7万美元，仅缴获的比特币就达到42.7亿美元。与调查相关的23308枚比特币仍在流通，加起来超过60亿美元。警方表示，要想查清楚到底有多少比特币，还需要几年的时间。这比特币的资金来自8000公里外的中国天津。哈哈哈😆这些钱大部份都是中国官员贪腐来的黑钱。所以，英国政府充公61000枚BTC。英国警方已经抓捕温简这个中国女人，另外一个中国女人叫张雅迪（原名叫钱志敏）已经逃离英国。英国警方已经发部全球通缉抓捕张雅迪（钱志敏）的通缉令才令人知晓最大的BTC洗钱案整个过程。这些比特币都是2017年购买比特币，利用比特币转移中国黑钱资金渠道。