Russia orders state-backed Max messenger app to be pre-installed on new phones

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• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  …though state media says it is not a spying app

  So it’s a spying app, then.

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  • phonics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    is it still spying if everyone knows theyre doing it?

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    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think so. There’s lots of spying going on throughout the world and I believe (but could be wrong) that this is common knowledge. With that assumption in mind, I’d still say that those programs (in the sense of “a plan or system under which action may be taken toward a goal” rather than any specific application) qualify as spying so the app from the article would too.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s literally making screenshots and recording sounds.

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wasn’t it renamed to HBO Max?🤔

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  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Interesting way to try and get some accidental installs outside of their target audience.

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    • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Waiting for DJT to start shilling it in 5…4…3…

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  • Zier@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It's now HBO Max Messenger+.

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    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You’ve just justified another $100 million in salary to David Zaslov.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Russia is so late to this game, China didn’t even need to force it on everyone, people just download it themselves out of their own free will (well its mostly social peer pressure, but like its not illegal to refuse installing it), even the Chinese Diaspora overseas are using it.

  The CCP literally has control of a microphone inside my house (family members using it), and they willingly installed it on their western phones, like its literally the main reason why they have a smartphone.

  And funny enough, my brother said something bad about CCP in the living room (he’s the anti-CCP one in my family) while parents are on their phones with Wechat on it. And also they said they (either my mother or father) were planning on visit mainland China like soon with my older brother for some personal matters, and um… yea best of luck lol, hope they don’t mind his position of Taiwan.

  Also the return trip is gonna be even more crazy. Because that’s the US Customs and um… if y’all have been watching US News… 👀 (And my father is not a US Citizen 👀). But nobody IRL is worried and its just bussiness as usual, they’re acting like this is trump v1.0, “not a big dead”… yea… good luck, don’t blame me for warning y’all.

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• ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  if the usa trotted down this path, their app would pay homage to the tansprayed president and be called MaxDonald. there would be an oversized version dubbed the Big Max. they would even target e-readers with the MaxBook Pro.

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  • balder1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Folks, we have the most INCREDIBLE announcement today. Maybe the best announcement in the history of announcements, many people are saying it. We’re launching the beautiful, tremendous Maxest app — and let me tell you, it’s going to be HUGE!

    This fantastic app — and by the way, it was my idea, nobody else could have thought of this — will come pre-installed on every phone. The fake news media will try to tell you it’s some kind of “spy app” - WRONG! Totally wrong!

    The app will help you in so many ways: weather alerts, traffic updates, finding the best hamburgers in your area. It’s all about making life more convenient! The Democrats don’t want you to have this amazing technology. They want you to stay uninformed! But we’re giving you the most beautiful, most secure app ever created. Our cyber experts — the best in the world, probably the best who have ever lived — they built walls around this app.

    Other countries will be so jealous of our app, they’ll probably try to steal it. But they can’t, because it’s AMERICAN MADE!

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    With the USA I’d rather expect it to be called Maxest or Maxer

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• sommerset@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah - you know why? Because it’s been confirmed that messengers like whatsapp are sending data to foreign spying agencies. Cooperating with them.

  You know what else? Ukraine already mandates dia for same shit.

  and when telegram founder could be held hostage in France for months - it’s hard to trust that platform is it?

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