If any journalist going to WWDC is reading this, I would love it if you could press folks involved with App Review to give a statement on what their plan is for when armed DOGE agents extrajudicially seize the app store's datacenters in order to deploy tracking software to migrants & trans […] - ThreadSky

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glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy • 4 days ago

If any journalist going to WWDC is reading this, I would love it if you could press folks involved with App Review to give a statement on what their plan is for when armed DOGE agents extrajudicially seize the app store's datacenters in order to deploy tracking software to migrants & trans […]

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glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•4 days ago

Within the narrower margins of the "tech" part of my life, this is really the thing that stresses me out the most. The fascists are going to spill out into real, physical violence against the infrastructure of our digital world, and those with proximity to the levers of power are going to do […]

xgranade.com•4 days ago

@glyph Yeah, it's really scary to say the least. It seems like at *best* people in a position to defend against fascism will get around to doing so once it's well and truly too late.

I believe that folks should treat every bit of technical infrastructure as being potentially compromised, given […]

xgranade.com•4 days ago

@glyph (A realization we should have had back when we learned that the NSA had their own little rackmount at AT&T datacenters, but I digress.)

Viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•4 days ago

@glyph im willing to bet they will do exactly what yahoo did when they let the nsa into their kernel memory space, leading to alex stamos resigning as their ciso.

they'll just welcome them in.
the c-levels do not care about the users.
apples execs absolutely do not care about the users […]

ktims.nonexistent.ca.ap.brid.gy•4 days ago

@glyph It is seemingly too late but perhaps folks will start to realize how harmful walled gardens and relinquishing control of trust is.

errant.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy•4 days ago

@ktims @glyph while I get what you are saying, I'm afraid the dead will realize very little. We are a lot closer to the cliff edge than anyone wants to admit.

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