Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Snit Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.hacker,alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:14:31 -0700 Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <220920150315428842%nospam@nospam.invalid> <91777a714f0d3c05732c6cc8035a09ba@remailer.cpunk.us> <220920151252101796%nospam@nospam.invalid> <220920152128268439%michelle@michelle.org> <230920150156003557%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net QqjV4Azp9L0HD1tS6Xs/uQPm/QSXmEhCpz+bAYEYrLFVmgaXGf Cancel-Lock: sha1:xZGXMdStEBuQeMZjtybMePUJPU4= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.36.0.130206 Thread-Topic: "Unhackable" Apple Confirms Malware-Infected Apps Found And Removed From Its Chinese App Store Thread-Index: AdD2Gu2fm5H18x+cMke9opgIP/nTTA== Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.freeware:243577 comp.sys.mac.system:80254 alt.hacker:8068 alt.privacy.anon-server:45206 comp.os.linux.advocacy:322298 On 9/23/15, 2:54 AM, in article mttssv$gs9$1@news.albasani.net, "Nobody" wrote: > On 9/23/2015 12:56 AM, nospam wrote: >> In article , Snit >> wrote: >> >>> Didn't Apple remove some music at one point? Maybe not... >> >> you may be thinking of an issue where apple's fairplay drm was hacked, >> which apple *had* to fix or they risked losing the contracts with the >> record companies who were forcing them to use drm at that time. >> >> included in that fix was removing any music that had hacked drm and >> *only* music with hacked drm. >> >> music that did *not* have the hacked drm was *not* removed, including >> anything purchased from the itunes store as well as any music the user >> encoded on their own and even pirated music, neither of which have any >> drm at all. >> >> again, only hacked drm songs were removed, and apple was obligated to >> do so. >> >> apple never wanted drm but the record industry wouldn't let them sell >> music without it, and they pretty much called the shots. after a while >> the music industry realized that online sales wasn't such a bad thing >> and drm eventually went away. > > So Apple has removed things from their customers phones without > permission, in spite of iCultist claims "they can do it but never have." > The "Apple didn't want to do it, the big meanies made them" is the > type of hilarity everybody has come to expect from iCultists... > Good to see you do not think I am an iCultist. -- * OS X / Linux: What is a file? * Mint MATE Trash, Panel, Menu: * Mint KDE working with folders: * Mint KDE creating files: * Mint KDE help: * Mint KDE general navigation: * Mint KDE bugs or Easter eggs? * Easy on OS X / Hard on Linux: * OS / Word Processor Comparison: