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Apple goes fascist (again)

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After years of saying they would never create a backdoor into their iOS devices, Apple has flipped and announced that they’re doing just that. This means that the security and privacy of our images on all our Apple iOS devices will soon be fundamentally compromised. If Apple’s algorithms detect a pattern in our data they don’t like, they’ll unlock our privacy and hand our images directly over to law enforcement.

But if we can mount enough pressure, we might be able to convince Apple to not go through with this disastrous change. Sign the petition telling Apple to uphold their privacy promise!

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For years, Apple rejected government pressure to break encryption and promised us that the data on our iOS devices is secure.1 They even built their brand promising to protect our privacy, saying that a permanent backdoor into their devices would be “too dangerous to create” — but … Continue reading →

Making of a dictatorship, Canadian style

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From Occupy Canada:

“One of the first steps Stalin took to establish his dictatorship of the Ukraine was to destroy the spirit of the farmers by breaking their protest of 1927. Once this was done, the spirit of the nation was soon to follow and thus the Ukraine entered a 70 year dictatorship.

When the Nazi dictatorship of Germany was being established it was pointed out by a famous writer that as each protest was put down, he let it go because he was able to rationalize how it didn’t really affect him. This was fine until the Gestapo next knocked on his door at which point he realized there was no one left to help him.

Canada is now experiencing a similar development of a “Reform Party” dictatorship. This is because, firstly, Canada has the unique parliamentary system in which the Prime Minister’s office is virtually a dictatorship in … Continue reading →