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1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2017 03:07:45 UTC Mike Gerwitz
   #GnuPG fundraising campaign:
   
   https://gnupg.org/donate
   
   It is disappointing how some of the world's most essential and widely used programs struggle to get funds. GPG was even worse off a couple years ago before the ProPublica article. For those who don't remember:
   
   https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/23794
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   • Alberto (moshpirit@quitter.es)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2017 06:16:17 UTC Alberto

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     • vinzv
     @mikegerwitz @vinzv what do you say about buying the new iPhone?
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   • Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jun-2017 17:44:42 UTC Mike Gerwitz

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     • Alberto
     • vinzv
     @moshpirit I'm probably missing part of this thread---I'm not sure where the iPhone came into this.
     
     I could never recommend buying the iPhone---it is proprietary and aggressively works against users' interests; they're notorious for user puppetry and lockin. They do express interest in user privacy, and it looks great and draws a lot of praise on the surface, but it's shallow---it doesn't erase all the other problems with iOS and Apple.
     
     Do I think they do better by user privacy and security than, say, Microsoft? Certainly. But we're still comparing two rotten apples.
     
     Some resources are here:
     https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html
     
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