Apple’s manorial security

Works well, fails badly — think different?

Cory Doctorow
OneZero
Published in
5 min readJun 8, 2021

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A tapestry illustrating a manorial lord threatening agricultural peasants with a stick, captioned with Apple’s ‘Think Different’ wordmark.

While digital feudalism is practiced by many Big Tech companies, Apple pioneered it and is its standard-bearer. The company rightly points out that the world is full of bandits who will steal your data and money and ruin your life, and it holds itself out as your protector.

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