A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

    • mycus
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      301 year ago

      Wasn’t a guy convicted on france not long ago and the deciding factor the judge used was because he used linux? WTF is going on there?

    • @[email protected]
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      271 year ago

      Modern hardware is likely exploitable by state actors via firmware/hardware vulnerabilities that can’t be mitigated at a software level.

      • @piecat
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        171 year ago

        Ya just look at the Intel management engine. Or the AMD platform security processor. Lot of spooky shit like secret op-codes.

        We need more open source HW.