GrapheneOS, one of the few countermeasures they could have, was recently banned in France.
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ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The fact that the french don’t even have basic countermeasures to prevent this is as hilarious as it is depressing
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
General_Effort@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
The Devs pulled out of France because of government pressure, but it wasn’t banned.
eleijeep@piefed.social 22 hours ago
It wasn’t banned.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s dumb.
If they wanna go authoritarian, at least allow their own government agents to use them. At least that’s what I’d do if I was a wannabe dictator.
ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They could literally just leave their phones at home.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Phones are used as communication. Unless you want to go back to Nokias and Razrs
ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
If you’re in intelligence.services, security should be a priority. You can also just have phones at work.
arararagi@ani.social 23 hours ago
How do you even ban a whole OS?
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
“I DECLARE THIS OS ILLEGAL!!!”
verdi@feddit.org 21 hours ago
The US secret service agents were being tracked with Strava… Everyone is getting fucked by the unregulated collection and use of personal data. Shit, some idiots even voluntarily give it away.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
Nation-states get more from this than lose. Otherwise they’d close all the shops pretty swiftly.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Some idiots voluntarily give it away? Brother… we as a society moved the public common areas for discourse, entertainment, finance, and research onto a digital landscape. That landscape, in particular, is set up like as though every Roman in the fora had an invisible personal Sherlock Holmes set up to automatically dissect their footprints, fingerprints, the direction and timeliness of their stair, … and then to record it in a virtually limitless ledger where it can later be aggregated and analyzed for behavioral patterns. We aren’t giving it away anymore than the Roman commoners would have been by merely walking around town. This is a very aggressive data harvesting situation.