Comment on Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.

humblebun@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Stop spreading rumours.

  Just disable the location permissions.

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  • humblebun@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Do you know that Pegasus software now has an unlimited license?

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    • napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pegasus spies on all the data on a phone. If a phone is really infected with that, then location access is the least of your worries. But this is not relevant anyway, because 99,9% of people will never be a valid target for such high-level spyware.

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      • humblebun@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In general yes. Just a daily reminder of our dystopian days

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    • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No one is spending 500k-1M to hack random people.

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      • humblebun@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Do you know what unlimited license means? 400 Russian journalists who fled to the Baltic states were compromised by Pegasus. This cancer is growing fast and if yesterday it wasn’t your business, today it is

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I thought Pegasus was 0 click by simply recieving an SMS message

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