An Apple fan who has spent “nearly 30 years as a loyal customer” says they’ve been “permanently” locked out of their Apple Account due to what might be the overzealous actions of Apple’s automated anti-fraud system. It’s left them locked out of “20 years of digital life,” and it all started with the seemingly straightforward purchase of an Apple gift card.
“I wouldn’t like to be caught without a second backup.” – Miles Edward O’Brian, Chief of Operations, Deep Space Nine. (“The O’Brian Principle”).
“<insert every good piece of Free Software advocacy reasoning>” – Every free software advocate who has been on about this during the entire past 20 years and up to twice that, warning us about these kind of things.
Either the user controls the…
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