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walterbellyesterday at 4:30 PM3 repliesview on HN

Who knows? Does HN count as journalism :)

I would happily pay Apple an annual subscription fee to run iOS N-1 with backported security fixes from iOS N, along with the ability to restore local data backups to supervised devices (which currently requires at least 2 devices, one for golden image capture and one for restore, i.e. "enterprise" use case). I accept that Apple devices will be compromised (keep valuable data elsewhere), but I want fast detection and restore for availability.

GrapheneOS on Pixel and Pixel Tablet have been anomaly free, but Android tablet usability is << Apple iPad Pro.

USB with custom Debian Live ISO booted into RAM is useful for generic terminal or web browsing.


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throawayontheyesterday at 7:34 PM

could you please elaborate on how you determine that your devices have been breached? e.g. referring to "anomaly free" makes it sound like you might witnessing non-security related unexpected behaviour? sorry for the doubt, i'm curious

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Melatonicyesterday at 6:19 PM

First idea if great honestly - lots of vendors do this. I use Firefox long term stable and Chrome offers this for enterprise customers. Windows even offers multiple options of this (LTSC being the best by far).

Would also make a great corporate / government product - I doubt they care about charging the average consumer for such a subscription (not enough revenue) but I can see risk averse businesses and especially government sectors being interested.

MichaelZuoyesterday at 7:07 PM

You can already do that?

Apple offers that to all customers who open up an enterprise account and direct billing line.

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