PolitiTweet Archive
Home Figures About
Donate
Profile Image

Walt Mossberg

@waltmossberg ↗

  • Overview
  • Archive
  • Deleted
Deleted No
Hibernated Yes
Last Checked April 2, 2021

Created

Wed Dec 04 14:11:12 +0000 2019

Likes

63

Retweets

2

Source

Twitter for iPad

View Raw Data

JSON Data

View on Twitter

Likely Available
Profile Image

Walt Mossberg @waltmossberg

@Kushal_Pandya @Apple I just did this on multiple devices. The approach by Apple is quite clear. The article just asserts things that are in the interests of the company’s business. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 4, 2019 Hibernated

Preceded By

Profile Image

Walt Mossberg @waltmossberg

This is an outrageous article, IMO. It condemns a great @apple feature which thwarts thieves from stealing your data and discourages them from stealing Macs. It puts this company’s business, which is all about the refurbishing industry, over users’ security and privacy. — PolitiTweet.org

iFixit @iFixit

Apple has added the infmaous "Activation Lock" to Macs, and it's going to cause tons of perfectly good laptops to g… https://t.co/IvemjRdgYm

Posted Dec. 4, 2019 Hibernated

Followed By

Profile Image

Walt Mossberg @waltmossberg

And, to those who suggest @apple should build in a special back door to disable the activation lock for people in the refurbishing business, I say that *any* back door weakens security and privacy for users. It will fall into the hands of criminals. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 4, 2019 Hibernated

© 2025 Politiwatch. Tweets and other media belong to their indicated owners; all other materials are licensed CC-BY-SA. If you use PolitiTweet professionally, please feel free to let us know. Note that PolitiTweet stopped archiving new tweets on April 3, 2023, when Twitter disabled our API access.