“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
The REEEEE you are about to hear are Apple employees being cut loose when WOKE goes BROKE.
TL;DR – Apple is definitely full steam ahead on “client side user photo analysis and reporting”, and has issued an evasive, sneakily worded denial of concerns about expansions of surveillance, as it rushes the new software into place.
Thanks to Cthulhu, we were warned EARLY about Apple’s surveillance plans. Sounds very innocent, right? I will explain exactly why this is not. This is INCIPIENT POLITICAL SPYING AND PRETEXT FOR ARREST. “But it’s for the CHILDREN!” You remember the last people on the left who used that line to “save children”? THEY’RE BACK. Apple …
It’s a very good thing I didn’t wait to start checking off “DONE” items on my “GTFO” action list, because Apple just confirmed my suspicions that they are NOT backing down, and moreover that there is trouble ahead.
Reading carefully as only a BURNED CHUMP can, it is very clear that Apple is saying WITHOUT SAYING IN PLAIN WORDS that they won’t concede to government surveillance demands that they themselves OPPOSE.
ANALOGY: “We’re just friends [but if he asks me to run off, I will do it in a heartbeat].”
Apple is not speaking from the heart here, and TRUST is GONE.
You know what I’m saying? There are any number of WORDFARE WAYS for Apple to renege on not allowing surveillance here, after they have designed, implemented, and put into place the KNOWING MECHANISM for such reneging on privacy.
I think everybody who is not satisfied with Apple’s message here is seeing the exact same thing that I am seeing.
Apple IS reserving the right to not just allow but implement government and contractor surveillance with which it agrees.
Do I HAVE to repeat the picture?
Let’s do it anyway.
Nah. I’m no longer a chump.
Tim Cook is part of the ELECTION CARTEL. These are the “Friends of Freedom”, “Friends of Privacy”, and “Friends of the Constitution” who were SILENT.
Martin Luther King Junior was SO RIGHT.
NOW – let me give you some more useful links.
Here is a kinda cute but kinda “jabbed-looking” tech chick with purple hair giving a nice description of what is going on.
Jump to 3:20 to catch the Apple story, or just start at the beginning to hear about more shocking Israeli spy tech.
Here is a rather pithy but “cutting right to the chase” report on the privacy concerns.
Thanks to Cthulhu, we were warned EARLY about Apple’s surveillance plans.
Sounds very innocent, right? I will explain exactly why this is not. This is INCIPIENT POLITICAL SPYING AND PRETEXT FOR ARREST.
“But it’s for the CHILDREN!”
You remember the last people on the left who used that line to “save children”?
THEY’RE BACK.
Apple can no longer be trusted, and they are accelerating their deployment of surveillance technology to serve the LEFT at a breakneck pace. Even by my Suspicious Cat standards, it is an ALARMING speed.
In my opinion their spying software is already a DONE DEAL and it’s READY TO DEPLOY.
They have very likely been alpha testing it on people already.
I just got an email from Apple, inviting me to help beta test iOS 15.
You want to know what I think of that?
NO. F***ING. WAY.
But it gets worse. It’s not just the fact that it’s ready, and they will not be talked out of it.
It’s not just WHY they’re doing it, which is why they will not be talked out of it.
It’s that they are lying about everything. And I will explain.
My advice to everybody……
GTFO!!!
Apple is NOT the Same Old Apple
Apple today is not the Apple of Steve Jobs. This should be fairly obvious to everybody. I think Jobs had some kind of understanding of why Apple needed to avoid being equated with leftism.
The problem is that the true keys to the empire all really belonged to Steve Jobs. When he handed the company over to a man who would ultimately betray half of Apple’s customers, Apple was done. The only question was how long Apple would take to fully betray ALL of its customers, and for those customers to REALIZE IT.
Now would be a good time to join those who can see the betrayal.
I never trusted Tim Cook when he said that Apple was dedicated to privacy. There was a part of me that wanted to believe that line, but I can say now with no reservation, that part is a CHUMP. I slap that part and say WAKE THE F*** UP.
Tim Cook is a political animal. And his political friends are not nice people. Not if you are US.
So how did Hillary World convince Tim Cook to abandon what principles he might have had?
Theory: It’s All About January Sixth
Influencing the influencers is old hat.
Influencing the people who HOST the influencers is where it’s at.
So influencing Tim Cook to break his pledge on privacy MATTERED. It was USEFUL – incredibly useful.
One of the real advantages of Nancy Pelosi’s little SCAM on January Sixth was the shock value for Democrats.
Part of what shocked Democrats was the fact that – yeah, in their heart of hearts they know – Biden didn’t win.
They were, however, OK with that bogus victory, as long as it didn’t lead to problems for them.
If Trump supporters would have had a nice, peaceful, but very loud rally at the Capitol, the Dems would have lost a HUGE portion of mindshare on the stolen election. Many more Democrats would have thought – deep down – “Yeah. No way Biden won.”
The Dems couldn’t have that. So they faked attacks inside, provoked the crowd outside, and their plants began breaking windows and doors to bring in the CHUMPS.
One of the best results for Mafia Nan and Chris Wray was this. It SCARED the Democrats and RINOs.
I personally think that Tim Cook was brought to a state where he literally FEARED an actual “insurrection”. That fear was useful, and all Cook’s half-hearted lip service to “privacy” just DIED.
Now – I do know that Apple iPhones and Apple iCloud were used by Dodge and FIB to go after “insurrectionists” in the days after January Sixth. That happened very quickly and without the slightest pushback from Apple.
I knew at that point that Apple could not be trusted. And so I just waited for confirmation that Apple has completely gone over to the dark side.
Well, we have that now.
Apple’s Alibi
On August 5, Ars Technica (or Arse Technocratica, as I like to call them) produced some only mildly critical reporting on Apple’s move.
That link is worth reading, if you plan to read nothing else.
Now – without getting into the details of it (they’re very technical), the discussion is basically about HOW Apple plans to check for “certain pictures” on people’s phones. Apple gives a very skeletal but seemingly exact and assuring description of their process, and basically says “don’t worry about it – nobody at Apple will be looking at your photos – they’re still private.”
I can only begin to tell you how much of a lie this is.
First of all, you are assuming that Apple is telling you the truth. It’s very HARD to throw what they say out completely, and not believe them AT ALL, and be fully skeptical, and make them “prove their way” back into trust, but that is really what you need to do.
So I want you to TRY – even though it’s difficult – to just say…..
“HMMM – MAYBE APPLE IS LYING ABOUT SOMETHING HERE.”
See? Much easier. Just open yourself to the possibility that Apple – wonderful Apple – might just be pushing a WEE FIB on us.
Now – before I get into MY criticisms, I’m going to present a few other people who have been critical, just so that you understand – this is not just Wolf – this is a LOT of people.
Here is an “Apple world follower” article in iPhone Hacks. This one really shows all aspects of the “it’s for the CHILDREN” psychological operation.
Apple’s Plan to Scan iCloud Photos Met with Backlash; Internal Memo Promises to Address Concerns
It’s not every day that Tim Cook goes Bill Clinton “for the CHILLDRUN” and you get comments like this:
No matter how well-intentioned, @Apple is rolling out mass surveillance to the entire world with this. Make no mistake: if they can scan for kiddie porn today, they can scan for anything tomorrow.
They turned a trillion dollars of devices into iNarcs—*without asking.* https://t.co/wIMWijIjJk
And given that Twitter is so bad now, let’s save that Tweet as an image.
What Snowden is saying is EXACTLY what I thought when I read the Ars Technica article. Snowden knows capabilities from the inside. I know them from the outside. He is exactly right, IMO.
The criticisms of EFF.org (Electronic Frontier Foundation), one of the biggest and most important privacy advocates, are mentioned in this same article, but they are better seen on the EFF website.
Now, I don’t particularly like this explanation by EFF, because MY ANALYSIS, knowing how Democrat lies work, shows that the situation is far, far worse than just some “back door” into your phone.
This is ROUTINE SURVEILLANCE BUILT IN.
EFF, mostly the good liberal sheep that they are, don’t understand that the situation is FAR WORSE than what they think is there. They are essentially being LULL BOTS in this context.
They’re “friends of Democrats” wringing their hands and going “I’m not so sure about this”.
They have NO IDEA how much worse things really are. And I’ll explain that shortly.
Let’s move on now, to 9 to 5 Mac, which shills hard FOR the new Apple “features”.
Normally, one would not think there might be a need to archive any article in ComputerWorld, but quite bluntly, we live in extraordinary times.
Removal of speech by either AUTHOR or AUTHORITIES is a SECOND WORLD PROBLEM, and that is exactly where we are going.
But check out that statement. It’s the BOTTOM LINE.
“Once you scan for one thing, you can scan for anything.”
I find it HIGHLY IRONIC that the other side LEVERAGED their own child trafficking against us here, but yeah. They did.
THAT is Democrat evil.
They even nailed a substantial fraction of the Q army this way, because – and I’m being blunt but kind – too many were in it ONLY because of the fight against pedophiles. Many (not all, but many) of those folks are SO single-minded, they are quite ready to throw away the Constitution if they hear the right buzzwords like “FOR THE CHILDREN”.
Yeah, think about it. You will NOT hear a peep out of many of the “BUT IT’S CHILDREN” crowd.
Now – let’s get down to a very meaty criticism of what Apple is doing.
This is VERY analogous to Kary Mullis warning about the ABUSE of PCR testing.
What if what Apple is doing GIVES WAY MORE FALSE POSITIVES THAN THEY ARE ADMITTING?
Yes – read that article, because THAT is where we realize that this is just one more INTENTIONAL BOTCH like the PCR tests.
You starting to see how dangerous this is?
It gets worse.
The thing that shocks me most can be described by creating an analogy.
Watch closely.
“We, the FBI, needs to catch terrorists and drug cartels laundering money. We also need to catch financial criminals. But unlike Wall Street professionals, we’re not experts in these financial matters. Likewise, we need to catch cybercriminals, and we’re good, but we’re not the best. Not like people who do this for a living.”
“Therefore, we would like to let two contractors be the ones who upload the data that we’ll be looking for. It’s very harmless – the FBI will not be involved in looking at people’s financial data or their cyber behavior. Instead, we will use hashes – encrypted numerical data for the suspect transactions and internet packets – supplied directly from our two respected expert contractors, Fusion GPS and Crowdstrike.”
Do you see it now?
It is PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY for Apple, and ACCESS FOR CONTRACTORS.
The first contractors will be unknown (to us) experts in going after child pornography.
ONLY if they find something that is approved by Wokesters at Apple, will the FBI be called in.
I’m gonna be blunt. I don’t TRUST the FBI that this guy was really a child pornography suspect. What if they “trumped up” a charge against him?
I mean, they did it to a sitting President of the United States. Why not some average patriot?
And those contractors could be anybody. What’s to prevent them from harassing – from SWATTING – a guy like Andrew Torba, who they HATE?
And what if they expand this stuff to HATE SPEECH and HATE MEMES?
Who would the contractors be?
ADL?
SPLC?
Who’s next?
Next, it could be BLM.
Next, it could be those “Antifa profs”.
Next, it could be those “QAnon experts”.
No, my friends. This all goes to a VERY bad place.
AND IT GETS WORSE.
I have reasons to believe that Apple is actually LYING about the technology they want to put on our phones.
I think that the lies go beyond things like HIDING the “GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT” (GIGO) risks of using third-party contractors who were in NO WAY approved by us or responsible to us.
BECAUSE APPLE IS INDEED HIDING THOSE RISKS.
According to the author above, Apple lied about the success of their algorithms.
Hell – I think they’re lying about the algorithms, too. I think they’re misleading us as to how the process actually works. I think they’re making VERY nondeterministic stuff sound very deterministic, and it’s not.
The following mistake is illustrative of BAD ROBOT MATCHES.
This is ROBOTS, on our phones, SPYING ON US. BADLY.
Robots that will be pretty much “EUA quality” – experimenting ON US.
Sound familiar?
No. Just NO.
Here’s my bottom line.
I am getting rid of Apple completely. It’s GONE. Scrubbed. History.
The ONLY way I’m keeping my Apple devices is if Tim Cook retires or is FIRED.
That’s it. He cannot be trusted. He has WRECKED Apple.
And they’re not smart enough to fire that guy, so BYE-BYE, APPLE.
Yeah, when I put it that way, a damn tiny computer bug seems like a lot bigger deal than it appears on my iddy biddy phone, but THAT IS THE BENEFIT of having independent, loud-mouthed, wolf-mannered software developers serving as unannounced GAMMA TESTERS of your product.
Hey, I could have put it worse. I could have said
DON’T LET THESE DIRTY ROTTEN DEMS FUCK WITH TURTLEHEAD’S GAME, YOU DOPES, OR WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE UNDER PRESIDENT CROOKED HILLARY OR JOE “WHAT DOES THIS BUTTON DO” BIDEN.
Bottom Line: Consider this the world’s most dangerous and assholish bug report. But WAKE UP YOU SUCKERS – we are dealing with MA CANKLES, and she ain’t no ordinary criminal.
THE COOK stews THE TURTLE over THE WOLF’S mangy carcass.
OK, let’s back up.
Have any of you heard of “WinRed”?
WINRED is that thing on your PHONE that takes your TRUMP DONATIONS at the END OF THE MONTH.
You know how you get all those guilt-inducing emails and messages from EVERYBODY?
President Trump
Vice President Pence
Mitch McConnell
Kevin McCarthy
Steve Scalise
Elise Stefanik
Eric Trump
Lara Trump
Don Jr.
Many, many more
Those messages that get more and more desperate as the end of the month approaches, and MORE and MORE “X”? 2X, then 3X, then 4X, then 5X, and if you’re like me, you wait until the end of the month, after doing the bills, to make sure you can give a nice donation with 4X or 5X for
FOUR MORE YEARS
Right?
AND IT GETS BETTER.
What they’re doing NOW is adding options for MOAR MONEY to MOAR PEOPLE.
People like MITCH, and KEVIN, and all your FAVORITE MAGA STARS. Also for people in tight races.
THE DOWNTICKET RACES.
NOW – this stuff is important, because TRUMP just told us that WINNING THIS ELECTION is the strategy to HEAL AMERICA. Thanks to MARICA for alerting me to what our VSG said.
Now – I have to tell you – Trump has stated in other venues that his idea of winning this election includes a STRONGER SENATE and a FLIPPED HOUSE.
And we ain’t gonna do that if these people are ROBBED of their WinRed donations.
Well, hold onto your iPhones, people.
HERE IS THE BUG.
The phone browser system always takes all your information, then gives you the PAYMENT INTERFACE. The payment interface includes a CREDIT CARD or APPLE PAY.
Now, in the past, I used both, because my Apple Pay goes to the same credit card. Not much difference. But THIS was all before they started adding the interface for EXTRA donations to Mitch and crew. Once that happened, for no particular reason, I just happened to choose the credit card option. And at the end, after giving money to Trump, I would give some to the other folks.
BUUUUUT…..
This last time, interestingly, the APPLE PAY option didn’t WAIT – it appeared EARLY, and got in front of my usual donation sequence. It didn’t WAIT to appear with the credit card payment stuff, after I had gone to the trouble of entering all my data.
NOPE – it appeared right at the beginning, because I had jumped right there from a personalized link in a text message. It knew who I was, filling in my name and a couple of other items, knew who I was going to pay, and presented me with the option to simply go to APPLE PAY right up front.
So I tried it. And it paid, RIGHT THEN, and just dumped me out into a weird “done” state that looked like I hadn’t even STARTED the donation process. Yeah, it was easy, but it felt like I hadn’t even donated.
First of all, I had no idea if Apple was going to make sure that my numbers got added to the monthly totals for the GOP, because I hadn’t really gone through the normal collection of all my data. Maybe they DID send my info – maybe they DIDN’T. I got no notifications – no receipts. The whole thing felt weird – like I wasn’t even sure that WinRed got my money.
As of YESTERDAY they had not notified my credit card – I’ll check again soon.
But THAT wasn’t the worst part.
NO MITCH. NO KEVIN. NO STEVE. NO ELISE.
I wanted to give Mitch some money. Oh, I’ll do it at the end of THIS month – plenty of EXTRA to make up for missing February – but really, the BIGGER GAME IS APPARENT.
If you use Apple Pay – at least in that early part – based on my experience – it does NOT take you through to the other candidates.
THAT is a HELL OF A BUG.
Politically effective “whoops” disguised as CONVENIENCE.
Now I ain’t blamin’ WinRed. WinRed is a great, WINNING product. But the problem is very likely that they’re GOOD PEOPLE. They haven’t dealt with the shiftiest of criminals, like DA WOOF has.
Most people aren’t SUSPICIOUS AS HELL OF APPLE. But when I figured out that APPLE WATCH knew when I was TAKING A DUMP AT WORK during initial testing – yeah – it knows when you unlock your gun case, too.
Nothing as dangerous as an HONEST MAN in I.T., brothers and sisters.
Anyway, these people who lost coin are some VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE in November…..
LIKE THE GUY RESPONSIBLE FOR 220 JUDGES…..
…..who in my opinion likely got screwed out of some MAJOR CASH.
SO – I just want to say……
PLEASE don’t let one BAD APPLE spoil the Turtle Pond.
THINK DIFFERENT.
Wolf just wants a happy forest. Happy Turtle, happy Honeybadger, happy Lion – happy Wolf.
Maybe not so happy jackass and maybe not so happy rotten apple farmer, but tough luck, you sneaks. We’ll catch YOU on the NEXT TRICK.
Suddenly I remembered one of my FAVORITE videos of all times – the one where Tom Petty understood FAKE NEWS, FAKE ENTERTAINMENT, FAKE SCIENCE and FAKE HISTORY literally DECADES before we did.
Here are the original lyrics, as nearly as I can tweak them to the ad libs of the video:
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Lyrics
“Jammin’ Me”
You got me in a corner You got me against the wall I got no – where to go I got no – where to fall
Take back your insurance Baby nothin’s guaranteed Take back your acid rain, baby Let your T.V. bleed
You’re jammin’ me You’re jammin’ me Quit jammin’ me Hey you can keep me painted in a corner You can look away, but it’s not over
You’re jammin’ me
Take back your angry slander Take back your pension plan Take back your ups and downs of Your life in raisin-land
Take back Vanessa Redgrave Take back Joe Piscopo Take back Eddie Murphy Give ’em all some place to go
You’re jamming me You’re jamming me Quit jammin‘ me Yeah you can keep me painted in a corner You can walk away, but it’s not over
Take back your Iranian torture And the apple in young Steve’s eye Yeah take back your losing streak Check your front wheel drive
You’re jammin’ me You’re jammin’ me Quit jammin’ me
Take back Pasadena Take back El Salvador Take back that country club they’re Tryin’ to build outside my door
You’re jammin’ me You’re jammin’ me Quit jammin’ me Baby you can keep me painted in a corner You can walk away, but it’s not over
Oh you’re jammin’ me Quit jammin’ me You’re jammin’ me
Well, you know what?
Time for an update.
STAND BACK!
Wolf Moon And The Deplorables Lyrics
“Scammin’ Me”
(Try playing the song while you read – it really helps!)
You got us in a corner
You got us against the wall
We got no – where to go
We got no – where to fall
Take back your crap insurance
With Obama’s guarantee
Take back your global warming
‘Cause we cut our T.V.s free
You’re scammin’ me
You’re scammin’ me
Quit scammin’ me
Hey you can keep us punched in a corner
But we will walk away, and it’s not over
You’re scammin’ me
Take back your patsy killers
Take back your gun grab plan
Take back your mind control of
Your lies in razor-land
Take back your crooked Clintons
Take back your fraud named O
Take back Loretta Comey
Give ’em all some place to go
You’re scamming me
You’re scamming me
Quit scammin’ me
Yeah you can keep us punched in a corner
But we will walk away, and it’s not over
Take back your Iranian cash grab
And our Apple as Tim Cook’s spy
Yeah take back your losing wars
Based upon your lie
You’re scammin’ me
You’re scammin’ me
Quit scammin’ me
Take back your Venezuela
Take back Paul Manafort
Take back your city slackers
You’re tryin’ so hard to import
You’re scammin’ me
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) were joined by Democratic lawmakers from both the House and Senate on February 7, 2019, to introduce Green New Deal legislation.
You’re scammin’ me
Quit scammin’ me
Baby you can keep us punched in a corner
But we will walk away, and it’s not over
Oh you’re scammin’ me
Quit scammin’ me
You’re scammin’ me
Wolf Moon And The Deplorables Lyrics
“Scammin’ Me”
You got us in a corner You got us against the wall We got no – where to go We got no – where to fall
Take back your crap insurance With Obama’s guarantee Take back your global warming ‘Cause we cut our T.V.s free
You’re scammin’ me You’re scammin’ me Quit scammin’ me Hey you can keep us punched in a corner But we will walk away, and it’s not over
You’re scammin’ me
Take back your patsy killers Take back your gun grab plan Take back your mind control of Your lies in razor-land
Take back your crooked Clintons Take back your fraud named O Take back Loretta Comey Give ’em all some place to go
You’re scamming me You’re scamming me Quit scammin‘ me Yeah you can keep us punched in a corner But we will walk away, and it’s not over
Take back your Iranian cash grab And our Apple as Tim Cook’s spy Yeah take back your losing wars Based upon your lie
You’re scammin’ me You’re scammin’ me Quit scammin’ me
Take back your Venezuela Take back Paul Manafort Take back your city slackers You’re tryin’ so hard to import
You’re scammin’ me You’re scammin’ me Quit scammin’ me Baby you can keep us punched in a corner But we will walk away, and it’s not over
Oh you’re scammin’ me Quit scammin’ me You’re scammin’ me
Wolf Moon, 2019
The words are yours. The music is presumably somebody else’s. Enjoy.
This SPECIAL TECH TYRANT TUESDAY open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.
Say what you want, comment on what other people said, comment on people’s comments. Keep it civil. Treehouse rules, but expect lots of QAnon.
No illegalities, please! We don’t want to give the TECH TYRANTS any excuses to TAKE our little remaining free speech, which helped obtain THEIR freedom to abuse us.
SPIT!
Today (Tuesday, December 4) will be the second day of Hanukkah, and the third day of Advent.
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