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

EFF: Apple seeking to patent spyware

Posted Aug 25, 2010 17:24 UTC (Wed) by Trelane (guest, #56877)
In reply to: EFF: Apple seeking to patent spyware by sepreece
Parent article: EFF: Apple seeking to patent spyware

the notion of having technology built into a device that keeps others from using it is hardly new and has often been thought of as a good idea

This is a pretty galling, facile, and disingenuous reframing of what's actually going on there, blithely ignoring salient details in order to reform it as "just another anti-theft" device (which isn't even the only use covered in the patent).

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