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Flagging due to him pointing to an obviously fake story to support his position.


Maybe you should say what story he's pointing to that's obviously fake?

I'm sure you mean the "Apple is sharing fingerprints with the NSA" link...



Well, I've never heard anywhere that Apple was sharing the fingerprints with the NSA. As far as I know, nobody said that... It's just the obvious* default assumption.

And the matter of default assumptions is that you need evidence that they are false. Apple denying it is no evidence. But yeah, the point about the microphone and camera stands.

* And it is obvious, no point is arguing against that. When everybody makes the same assumptin the first time they have a new piece of data, the assumption is obvious.


"As far as I know, nobody said that"

The OP linked to an article which said that, which sourced from the article referenced by the link to the rebuttal I posted.

"And it is obvious, no point is arguing against that."

No, it's really not obvious. Apple made very specific claims about the functionality of their product. Unless you can prove those claims wrong, you're just spreading a conspiracy theory.




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