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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ (www.theverge.com)
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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

At Apple, we build our products and services with industry-leading privacy and security technologies designed to give users control of their data and keep personal information safe.

At Apple, we build our products and services with industry-leading vendor locking tactics to distance our brand from other lesser ones.

We took steps to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials in order to gain access to iMessage.

We're not letting anyone breach this walled garden, but nice try.

These techniques posed significant risks to user security and privacy, including the potential for metadata exposure and enabling unwanted messages, spam, and phishing attacks. We will continue to make updates in the future to protect our users.

By using these tactics we can keep our users away from solutions that have any interoperability whatsoever and keep promoting decade-old features as new, as our ~~sheep~~ ahem user base don't know any better.

[-] somegadgetguy@lemdro.id 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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