• @[email protected]
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    512 days ago

    You are answering a comment explaining why this is bullshit. “Gurus” are sufficiently rare to have other kinds of surveillance.

    For some reason in every bad event there are plenty of people thinking evil is stupid.

    • @MigratingtoLemmy
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      212 days ago

      What I’m trying to say is said gurus will build something that the masses can use (to the extent of the masses that know what Threema and Briar are).

      • @[email protected]
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        112 days ago

        My third sentence still applies. Do you realize that the situation presented is one with backdoors on every device and criminal responsibility for bypassing\removing those?

        • @MigratingtoLemmy
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          112 days ago

          Yes, and this will affect everyone. Which is why I’m hopeful that organisations like the EFF, the TOR browser’s foundation, Graphene OS and the general Android community comes up with something that will prevent this. I hope this will push for greater efforts in obfuscation of traffic from TOR, I2P, Freenet, Wireguard and the like along with better education amongst the general population.

          You could call me naive though, I suppose. Perhaps I expect too much

          • @[email protected]
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            112 days ago

            Police checks your phone and finds the banned piece of software.

            Or your ISP detects traffic from something which is not reported by the backdoor on your phone.

            There are so many ways.

            There is no technological solution to a power problem. Power solutions to power problems include riots, revolutions, assassinations …

            • @MigratingtoLemmy
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              112 days ago

              Oh, so TOR, Graphene OS and Signal will be banned then? We’re going towards a dystopia where the police control which apps you can and can’t install?

              Yeah I see your point

              • @AeonFelis
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                112 days ago

                We’re going towards a dystopia…?

                I mean…

                • @MigratingtoLemmy
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                  112 days ago

                  I know we are heading in that direction but I didn’t expect this to happen so soon. I thought it would be beyond my lifetime

              • @[email protected]
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                112 days ago

                Well, they are talking about “local scanning” or something, so that’s what I’d imagine.

                • @MigratingtoLemmy
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                  112 days ago

                  I thought they wanted applications to scan and send data to them, but perhaps the Android OS itself isn’t too far of a reach