(GVO) – A month after China announced its plan to crack down on companies offering virtual private networks (VPN), United States-based tech company Apple informed its customers that it would take down VPN services from its China store in compliance with the country’s…
(TFC) – For the non-technical persons who wish to have a baseline of security/privacy, here are the answers to the questions I get asked often: Mobile devices: Apple OS has generally less malware than Android OS. Both are quite insecure…
(TFC) – There were a lot of questions following the ‘terrorist attack” in San Bernardino in December of 2015. Reports of multiple shooters, lack of evidence and information from official sources, and the suspicious deaths of the accused terrorist aside, the…
World (PI) – Technologists hoped the “Crypto Wars” of the 1990s – which ended with cryptographers gaining the right to legally develop strong encryption that governments could not break – was behind them once and for all. Encryption is a fundamental…
Washington DC (Sputnik) – Wikileaks founder Julian Assange answered questions after ‘Vault-7’ new batch called ‘Dark Matter’ has been released. LIVE NOW WikiLeaks press conf on CIA "Dark matter" #Vault7 questions #askWL https://t.co/qCNqu7csO5 — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 23, 2017 The second…
United States (Sputnik) – A hacking group threatens to wipe data from over 300 million Apple devices unless the US technology giant pays a ransom, the Motherboard news portal reported Tuesday. The hackers identified as “Turkish Crime Family” demanded Apple to pay…
Tehran’s recent ultimatum to Apple, the US tech giant, to open up an office in Iran or face a ban on Apple products in the country, was presented as a bid to end the loss of tax revenue from millions of iPhones smuggled into Iran, but its real goal is to break through the wall of US sanctions still blocking investment in Iran.
“If [Apple] does not register an official representative office in Iran, all phones produced by this company will be confiscated from stores,” said Abbas Nakhaei, head of the Anti-Smuggling Task Force, in an interview with the hardline Tasnim News Agency on July 17, 2016.
Bringing Apple officially into the country would be a huge victory for Iran, which has argued that the benefits of signing the nuclear deal and the easing of international sanctions have not brought the expected foreign investment into the country.
If you’re an avid user of Apple products then there’s a good chance you’ve probably broken at least one in your life. What you may have fail to realize is that broken iPhone represented a golden opportunity; an upcoming decision and a metaphorical fork in the road between Apple and Android. I’m going to explain why the Android route is the ideal direction in which to travel.
2006 was the year I owned my first and last Apple product and I hated it, especially the difficulties I encountered trying to figure out how to add music to it without destroying my friend’s library or my own. It was an original 4th Generation iPod and given to me as a hand-me-down. In spite of the inconvenience that its old style proprietary cable poses, I used it for a short while until it was replaced by the music player in my Android phone. I still have that 32Gb iPod, I’ve just stripped it of everything that makes it Apple. Now I occasionally use it for external storage. This year marks a decade of my distaste for the Apple company and it’s products, so let’s celebrate. I’m going to explain why I’ve never purchased an Apple product, nor will I ever own one again… and neither should you. Here’s why:
Maybe tech executives learned from the backlash over cooperation with the US surveillance state.
