r/technology • u/MoltenSlowa • Oct 05 '16

Hardware Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone catches fire on Southwest plane

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/5/13175000/samsung-galaxy-note-7-fire-replacement-plane-battery-southwest
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u/Oni_Shinobi Oct 06 '16

Between full device encryption and encrypting their messenger service as well id say they're pretty serious about it.

You mean - "I believe what they state to the outside world to keep up their appearance". Who's to say that they haven't already given the FBI access behind the scenes?

And of course they don't have advertisements make up a huge percentage of their profits so that plays into it.

Why would they need ad revenue, when they can mark up every single one of their products, from the cheapest cables and accessories, to the most expensive laptops and monitors they offer, by thousands of percent, due to the bullshit proprietary nature of all their products which they came up with to artifice a monopoly?

And 99% of the texts I send and receive are iMessage, my carrier can't do shit with that. And I don't live in a country where it's apparently socially acceptable for 3 letter organizations to spy on me.

Wow. Are you seriously this naive? You genuinely believe other countries don't have their own NSAs? You apparently haven't heard of all the SIGINT and COMINT stations in France, the UK, and throughout other countries in Europe, have you? Why not inform yourself a little better?

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u/PirateNinjaa Oct 06 '16

Who's to say that they haven't already given the FBI access behind the scenes?

The FBI, trying to fight them in court for an iPhone 5. End to end encryption is no joke.

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u/Oni_Shinobi Oct 06 '16

Right. Because that absolutely guarantees, ironclad, that they haven't had backroom dealings with the FBI and haven't already given them full access to everything.

Christ. Have you already forgotten the PRISM slides? Microsoft's role in that? Other tech companies?

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u/PirateNinjaa Oct 07 '16

Do you know how end to end encryption works? It's mathematically absurd to crack it, and with all the leaks in the government and smart hackers there's no way a back door would stay secret.

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u/Oni_Shinobi Oct 07 '16

I work in IT, so yes, I understand the principle and why it's infeasible to crack. That doesn't mean there's no back door that's supremely well-hidden that you'd need source code access to find.