Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance
hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 1 month agoI guess a smart phone would be a luxury item in NK. So one could chose not to use one instead of being tracked?
In Germany the government and police use the word Quellentelekommunikationsüberwachung (source telecommunication surveillance) when they express their desire to have a Trojan on someone’s phone - to protect the children of course.
So the phenomenon is not unknown outside of NK.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, right, as if that can be used by humans, or if it’s even a word.
Muehe@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
de.wikipedia.org/…/Telekommunikationsüberwachung#…
It means “telecommunication source surveillance”.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wow, German is weird.
Muehe@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Meh, essentially it’s just writing “Telecommunicationsourcesurveillance” as a single word without the spaces to indicate it’s a singular thing being referred to (in this case the concept of directly listening on the source device before encryption happens). Might seem weird I guess, but you get used to it pretty quickly.