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politelemontoday at 5:22 PM1 replyview on HN

You won't see that anywhere without their usual procedure of redefining the problem definition.

Sorry but you still need to be wary of state actors and the handing over of data to authorities, which is a far simpler approach than breaking security boundaries. The hacking statement is pure marketing.


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danaristoday at 5:57 PM

This is overly reductive, black-and-white thinking.

Yes, it is impossible to be 100% ironclad secure from all possible methods of either digitally surveilling you or exfiltrating your data.

This does not mean that measures like those in the iPhone's Lockdown Mode are not genuinely helpful to a subset of the population that is at high risk for certain types of attacks.