Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Eric Schmidt Talk Past Each Other On Privacy And Security

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Tim Cook and Eric Schmidt answer different questions than the ones being asked about privacy and security.

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[therogerwilco]

Apple has lost their glimmer.
People are seeing them for the money-grubbing company they are.

 

[irish_adam]

Are we ever going to have a comment system that actually works? i had to go to the forum to be able to post on this article.

anyways, i dont like that you called googles whole business model a weakness, its that model that has made it the giant it is today. Google has never hidden from the fact that it uses your data to provide those free services you use so whats the problem? dont like it? then go pay for a premium service. Apple and Google both operate on very different business models, it was a pathetic cheap shot from Tim Cook, especially considering Apples screw ups in the past when its come to security

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Neither are very secure, look at Gmail accounts getting hacked, and iCloud. We can trust Ubuntu however, and I'd consider Microsoft safe (though hackers tend to go toward it).

 

[ldo]

Glad to see a journalist actually understand what they are reporting, rather than uncritically regurgitating quotes to try to appear “fair and balanced”.

 

[chfireball]

data mining is ok! if you like android!..personally id want a cut of the pie!!

 

[psiboy]

This Lunacy from Tim "Crook" at Apple.. a company that only a few years ago was saying "you can't get a virus on a Mac". The man is a retarded Ostrich with his head in the sand. I deal with the public for IT every day and the idiocy of the "no virii on a mac" is something I still have to correct with "Joe and Jill public". Irresponsible and over priced is all Apple has ever been. As another commenter posted, Google have been up front from day 1 unlike Apple the great "deceptiCON" 😛

 

[psiboy]

This Lunacy from Tim "Crook" at Apple.. a company that only a few years ago was saying "you can't get a virus on a Mac". The man is a retarded Ostrich with his head in the sand. I deal with the public for IT every day and the idiocy of the "no virii on a mac" is something I still have to correct with "Joe and Jill public". Irresponsible and over priced is all Apple has ever been. As another commenter posted, Google have been up front from day 1 unlike Apple the great "deceptiCON" 😛

 

[Anakha00]

Where was the proof of any Gmail accounts being hacked Turkey3? If you're referring to the 5 million "hacked" email addresses with passwords, there was never any confirmation that actual matching account/password combinations were taken from Google. In fact there were many sources that pointed towards the accounts(gmail addresses)/passwords being taken from other sites, the only problem is that many people don't use different passwords for different accounts, which one can hardly blame Google for now can they?

As for the article, well I can't remember the last time Google forced me or anyone else to click on an ad to buy something. Seems to me Apple is trying their best to make people forget about a very public security issue at the time of their new product release. Not saying that if these celebrity's Google accounts had been targeted they would be secure still, but Apple put them into that situation in the first place because their products, while convenient for a casual user, uploaded these pics to the cloud as backups. Let's face it, Apple is as big as they are in the 21st century because Steve Jobs was smart enough to improve on clunky product designs for the casual user, unfortunately those improvements had nothing to do with security and now hackers are taking advantage of it.

 

[therealduckofdeath]

Apple in a nutshell: Gets an uncomfortable question about their flawed products, tries to shift focus to a different company.

Had Tim Crook not been working for Apple, he would have been a corrupted politician today.

 

[ScottWLovesYou]

Apple iCloud got hacked three times. Google has never been hacked. Eric Schmidt is respectful and mature. Tim Cook acts like bitchy cheerleader #4 from some Meangirls copy.

 

[Toughonstuff]

Then don't put your IPhone in your pants pocket.. Buy a holder..

 

[ScottWLovesYou]

Then don't put your IPhone in your pants pocket.. Buy a holder..

Computerbild in Germany proved it only takes 44 pound of pressure to bend an iPhone. You can generate 44 pounds pretty easily. We shouldn't have to lower the bar for Apple because they made a poorly designed phone.

 

[Toughonstuff]

44 lbs, That more than normal pressure. But, OK. we have 4 of them. We'll keep them in our Holders. so we'll never have to worry about it..