Pluralistic: When Facebook came for your battery, feudal security failed (05 Feb 2023)

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When Facebook came for your battery, feudal security failed: A tale of whistleblowers, security through obscurity, and binding arbitration.
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Pluralistic: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store (21 Dec 2022)

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How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store: …and what we should do about it.
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Pluralistic: 14 Nov 2022 Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product

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Even if you're paying for the product, you're still the product: Incentives matter, but impunity matters more.
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Pluralistic: 11 Nov 2022 Apple's business model made Chinese oppression inevitable

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Apple's business model made Chinese oppression inevitable: A photon torpedo on the bridge in Act I will go off by Act III.
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Pluralistic: 10 Nov 2022 Amazon and Apple have an illegal price-fixing conspiracy

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Amazon and Apple have an illegal price-fixing conspiracy: The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Pluralistic: 17 Jun 2022

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Facebook's right, Apple is too powerful: And so is Facebook.
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Pluralistic: 30 May 2022

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Podcasting "Apple's Cement Overshoes": Thinking different about right to repair.
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Pluralistic: 15 Feb 2022

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McKinsey For Kids (no, really): Give us a child when they are seven and they are ours for life.
Outing German spy agencies by mailing them Airtags: A threat-model parable.
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Pluralistic: 29 Oct 2021

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LaserWriter II: Tamara Shopsin's celebration of the heroic era of the Mac.
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Pluralistic: 08 Jun 2021

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Rabbits: PK Dick meets Qanon: Terry Miles's debut novel of conspiratorial madness.
Apple's manorial security: Works well, fails badly – think different?
Billionaires don't pay tax: Leona Helmsley was an unrecognized genius.
Google and France agree on ad-tech interop: Not the kind of competition we want.
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