Pretty sure AP is funded by newspapers

If your organisation is big enough to have a press office of more than 4 or 5 people, you will usually have an on-call rota.

You misspelled ‘I cannot answer your question’

The technology is magnifying the flaws in capitalism

News seems to work just the same in the UK - mix of free and premium news stories

That’s a pretty serious accusation- and I don’t think it’s likely that he has survived this long based on insider trading

My account hasn’t been affected … yet

I think I volunteered to help moderate it about 3 months ago 😕

Go on ….

So, what are the **specific ** privacy problems with Apple Maps?

The two things are orthogonal

Fair enough.

If your concern is privacy, do you have a particular problem with Apple Maps?

If your concern is privacy, do you have a particular problem with Apple Maps?

Perhaps you switched your view from ‘Threads’ to ‘All content’ without realising?

Irrespective this thread is not about who is or is not burnt out, it’s about how posts like your are what enabled the xz backdoor to happen.

I thin you need to chill a bit. Open source has a long illustrious history of people cooperating to build software and submit patches and enhancements which are then scrutinized by project leads. Yes, occasionally bad actors use this model to try and slip through exploits, but you don’t throw out one of the strengths of open source because of that. You make sure mechanisms are in palce to allow robust scrutiny.

I’m not going to pick through his last year’s posts and make a diagnosis, but if you’ve seen no evidence of that, I think you’re wilfully ignoring the signs.

Don’t play dumb.

The irony is strong in this one. But if you really want to believe that intelligent agencies don’t work covertly overseas, I’ll leave you to it.

Because clearly a secret service of one country could never infiltrate FedEx’s distribution depot in another.

If I’m (say) the UK intelligence service and I want to spy on (rolls dice) a group of people in Switzerland- it much easier for me to intercept their packages and patch them in transit then having to talk to Apple.