The push comes as India seeks greater regulatory control over global tech companies. The initiative would require manufacturers to include the government’s GOV.in app store and related apps like BHIM, DigiLocker, VoterID on smartphones sold from India.

Beyond pre-installation, they also requested that their apps be available for download outside the company’s app stores from third-party sources without triggering “untrusted source” warnings.

  • @just_another_person
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    251 month ago

    What backdoors are pre installed on western phones? I’m talking actual backdoors on the device itself. I feel researches would have already found and altered to some very publicly.

      • @just_another_person
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        281 month ago

        These are neither confirmed, nor have ever been proven, and don’t deal with phones.

        The first link is about networking hardware, which has already been found by security researchers long ago.

        The second is about an attempt at doing something like a backdoor that never came to fruition.

        The last link has never been observed or proven, and how it would work is impossible to know. Having a “backdoor” on a CPU is meaningless without the other attached hardware to work with. Some would say impossible, and made up.

        • @surph_ninja
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          -181 month ago

          So you don’t believe anything that’s been leaked by whistleblowers? You think the Snowden stuff is all fake?

          • Hominine
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            161 month ago

            Depending a lie with whataboutism is a bad look.

            Why not just admit you don’t know, but enjoy being paranoid and conspiratorial in this space?

            • @surph_ninja
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              -71 month ago

              What lie? What “whataboutism”? The person tried to deny there’s any surveillance built into western technologies, and I gave a prominent example to prove them wrong. That’s not what “whataboutism” means.

              Weird move for y’all to burn your astroturf accounts gaslighting people about what we’ve all personally witnessed from whistleblowers. You really expect that to work?

          • @just_another_person
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            101 month ago

            The NSA activities Snowden leaked were specifically happening in data and telecom centers to snoop traffic in transit. He make known some secret programs about exploiting and compromising devices, but of that’s already known as a possibility. He never detailed anything about backdoors on phones from manufacturers as you’ve suggested.

            • @surph_ninja
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              -111 month ago

              Right, the Snowden leaks did not include phone backdoors. Just everything else you denied.