Cory Doctorow on Nostr: But here's the thing about trusting a warlord when he tells you that the fortress's ...
But here's the thing about trusting a warlord when he tells you that the fortress's walls are there to keep the bad guys *out*: those walls also keep you *in*. Sure, Apple will use its control over Ios to stop Facebook from spying on you, but when *Apple* spies on you, no one can help you, because Apple exercises total control over all Ios programs, including any that would stop Apple from nonconsensually harvesting your data and selling access to it:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar2/
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