Comment on India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding
g8phcon2@k.fe.derate.me 2 weeks ago
I have an Indian colleague who told me he was threatened with arrest after a traffic stop for having element and conversations installed on his phone as the cop told him those are told for terrorists and he should just use WhatsApp
And that’s the truest, just unpleasant, answer to all the talk about new messenger services and emerging replacements.
Power doesn’t care about rules. Power does care that you don’t have a way to communicate freely. Power punishes you if you try to find a way.
Social problems are not solved by technical means. Or, for the sake of correctness, - they are, but those technical means are called weapons of war. To change the balance of power so that your wishes were respected.
Why would a traffic cop be looking at his phones chat apps?!
They were trading pokemons in pokemon go?
Cops are doing this in the US too.
I’m not sure, but I assume it’s because a GPS app is running on the dash somewhere, and the app keeps the phone unlocked and visible?
Need to start obscuring what is installed on devices. Terminal based communication and host it on a remote server that you connect to with SSH so when they inspect your phone there is nothing there.
g8phcon2@k.fe.derate.me 2 weeks ago
He thought terrorists also use email and drink water, but decided not to tell the cop that.