ColorOfACarrot

@ColorOfACarrot@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI controversial smartphone sting operation led to nearly 800 arrests in 16 countries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not care if they caught a few dozen criminals in Estonia, this whole thing is a privacy nightmare. The FBI basically turned themselves into a hardware manufacturer just to bypass encryption and spy on everyone. It is mass surveillance, plain and simple.

  The fact that they just monitored 12,000 people without concrete suspicion for each individual is insane. Today it is cartels, but tomorrow it is whatever group the government decides is a threat. If you allow the state to build the tools for total surveillance, they are going to use them on more than just “bad guys” eventually. We should be terrified of this level of overreach, not celebrating it as some brilliant operation. It is a massive violation of the presumption of innocence.