EFF: Apple seeking to patent spyware [LWN.net]

EFF: Apple seeking to patent spyware

Posted Aug 24, 2010 16:50 UTC (Tue) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877)
In reply to: EFF: Apple seeking to patent spyware by Aliasundercover
Parent article: EFF: Apple seeking to patent spyware

The thing is people are so sick of the battleground which is Windows software they are willing to trade freedom for safety.

And the safety is temporary and ephemeral at best (see the fact that it's still possible to jailbreak the phone and exploit vulnerabilities in individual applications). Therefore, perhaps it's never in recent history been so apropos to quote the full-on Franklin quote:

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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EFF: Apple seeking to patent spyware

Posted Aug 24, 2010 16:51 UTC (Tue) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

Crap. Quotation source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

There we go.

EFF: Apple seeking to patent spyware

Posted Aug 24, 2010 17:20 UTC (Tue) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

(glad to see that it looks like I used "aprops" correctly; the downside of a system where you can't go back and edit your posts is that it preserves your idiocy for all those in the future to go back and see how much of an idiot you truly are. ;)