Apple lowered these ice tracking apps. Developers do not surrender
WireD legal experts told them that the ice monitoring and documentation programs that Apple had removed from its program store are clear examples of protected speech under the US Constitution. “These programs are publishing protected constitutional lectures,” said David Green, director of civil liberties at the Electronic Electronic Foundation.
This has not prevented the Trump administration from attacking developers behind these ICE programs. When ICEBLOCK first reached a top official at the Apple Apple Store in April, the Trump administration responded to the developer’s prosecution. “We look at him,” said Bundi about Fox News from Aaron Iceblock. “And she’s better care.”
Neither the White House nor the ice immediately responded to comment requests.
Digital law researchers say the situation shows the risks that key operating systems and communication channels are centrally controlled – whether directly by governments or other powerful institutions such as large technology companies. Regardless of what is officially available through the Google Play Store, Android users can endanger their desired applications. But Apple’s ecosystem has always been a wall garden, an approach that the company has been using its security benefits, including the ability to display more for malicious applications.
For many years, a group of researchers and enthusiasts have been trying to create “prisoners” for iPhones to hack their devices as a way around Apple’s closed ecosystem. But recently, prison escape has become less common. This is somewhat the result of progress in the security of the iPhone, but part of it is in recent years that attackers have been exploiting the complex chains of vulnerabilities, which can potentially be used to escape malware instead, especially mercenary espionage.
“The motivation of the closed ecosystem has been lost because Apple adds capabilities that have previously needed prisoners such as wallpapers, connectivity, better notifications and private mode in Safari,” said a security and prison escape researcher. “But this situation with Ice apps highlights that Apple is a point of failure as a referee and a point of failure.”
Stanford PFEFFERKORN warns that while US technology companies are not under government control, they are “happy” when “repression of free speech and opposition”.
“This is particularly disappointing,” from a company that brought us various advertising campaigns, which called MLK, Gandhi and Mohammad Ali – none of which are likely to be a great fan of ice. “
