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Jeffrey Paul is a hacker and security researcher living in Berlin and the founder of EEQ, a consulting and research organization:
Apple is preserving unencrypted server connections in their operating systems in an effort to enable global location tracking of their userbase by passive monitoring of major internet backbones. This is supported by timelines and context, which will be provided.
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A society that is under constant and total suspicionless police surveillance is a society that is, given enough time, actually doomed. Apple is complicit in building this society currently, and it poses an existential threat to freedom worldwide if it is not rectified.
Read more:
https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveillance/
Discussion on hacker news:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37875370
Apple is preserving unencrypted server connections in their operating systems in an effort to enable global location tracking of their userbase by passive monitoring of major internet backbones. This is supported by timelines and context, which will be provided.
...
A society that is under constant and total suspicionless police surveillance is a society that is, given enough time, actually doomed. Apple is complicit in building this society currently, and it poses an existential threat to freedom worldwide if it is not rectified.
Read more:
https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveillance/
Discussion on hacker news:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37875370