Apple Exploits You
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/us/politics/supreme-court-antitrust-apple.html [04:03:16] <jrmu> https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/11/judge-dismisses-apples-theft-claims-in-epic-games-lawsuit/ [04:03:21] <jrmu> Judge dismisses Apple’s “theft” claims in Epic Games lawsuit [04:03:26] <jrmu> "Although Epic portrays itself as a modern corporate Robin Hood, in reality it is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that simply wants to pay nothing for the tremendous value it derives from the App Store," Apple stated bluntly in its September motion. [04:03:31] <jrmu> Casey argued at the hearing that Epic "has funds that should be in Apple’s possession... Epic has abused funds that should be in Apple’s hands." But Rogers noted that only 30 percent of those funds arguably belong to Apple, and, crucially, that "the 30 percent is in dispute" in the still unsettled case. [04:04:06] <jrmu> Casey argued at the hearing that Epic "has funds that should be in Apple’s possession... Epic has abused funds that should be in Apple’s hands." But Rogers noted that only 30 percent of those funds arguably belong to Apple, and, crucially, that "the 30 percent is in dispute" in the still unsettled case.
[09:37:13] <jrmu> https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/ [09:37:19] <jrmu> Your Computer Isn't Yours [09:37:22] <jrmu> On modern versions of macOS, you simply can’t power on your computer, launch a text editor or eBook reader, and write or read, without a log of your activity being transmitted and stored. [09:37:27] <jrmu> It turns out that in the current version of the macOS, the OS sends to
Apple a hash (unique identifier) of each and every program you run, when you run it. Lo
ts of people didn’t realize this, because it’s silent and invisible and it fails instant ly and gracefully when you’re offline, but today the server got really slow and it didn’ t hit the fail-fast code path, and everyone’s apps failed to open [09:37:33] <jrmu> if they were connected to the internet. [09:38:01] <jrmu> The version of macOS that was released today, 11.0, also known as Big Sur, has new APIs that prevent Little Snitch from working the same way. The new APIs don ’t permit Little Snitch to inspect or block any OS level processes. Additionally, the ne w rules in macOS 11 even hobble VPNs so that Apple apps will simply bypass them.