alt Hacker NewsIt doesn’t matter what the app does today it can be made to do anything they want after the fact. Monitor speech, location, contacts, content, preserve evidence for prosecution, inspection your dinner choices or your sexual habits.
This is on the far end of the spectrum of bad.
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adrr • today at 3:31 AM
Wouldn't that require Apple to sign the app with their own key to get low level API access? Has apple ever done that with anyone?
nrhrjrjrjtntbt • today at 2:07 AM
When the app is mandated installed then user permissions are also moot. It will have full access an app can have.
> It doesn’t matter what the app does today it can be made to do anything they want after the fact.
This is an extremely important point of universal application that can't be emphasized too much.
Even if one agrees with a current politician's position, once the precedent is set, there's nothing stopping an administration down the line extending the reach of an already installed and by then socially accepted mechanism.
Someone called this the "totalitarian tip toe"; that guy (who shall rename unnamed) was "a bit weird", but his concept stands anyway imo.