[NTLK] MyDevice (was: Re: Newton OS on iPad video)

[L.W. Brown]

All possibilities, but hardly the sole problem of Apple:
Rim has been knuckling under to demands to hand over the means to permit the Saudis and the Indians access to Blackberry messages over the last several weeks. I'm sure more demands will come...
Google has not such a great story to tell re China.
On & on…
There is no tool but that has a double edge...


On 18. Sep., 2010, at 17:34 PM, Lord Groundhog wrote:

> I don't want to dismiss or discount the possibility that there are genuine
> and innocent uses for introducing this technology, but I have a question.
> Am I the only person disturbed by the possibility that Apple will be
> creating the technology that will also allow them to track thousands --
> millions -- of owners of iPad/iPodTouch/ iPhone units?  The implications of
> this, to customers who travel to countries like China, U.A.E., Turkey, and
> similar, where the governments would welcome any technology that helps track
> dissidents, are bad enough.  Then we have to consider the governments we
> don't suspect:  not so long ago, some so-called "free democracies" started
> closely monitoring the communications of citizens that disagreed with their
> political decisions.
> 
> On top of that, what's to stop anyone with the savvy from hacking into this
> for their own purposes:  tracking a business rival and then "killing"
> his/her phone at a crucial moment for commercial gain, mindless vandalism in
> the form of targetting phones randomly and then "killing" them off "because
> they can"?  If you lived through the '80s viruses designed to trash hard
> drives you know what I'm talking about.
> 
> And all that's in addition to hanging a sword over any of us if we decide to
> put "unauthorized" software on the devices they want us to spend a few
> hundred pieces of eight to buy.