Non-expert opinion: it’s dangerous.
Paragon’s “zero-click” Graphite program can quietly invade the mobile phone of its target and extract its contents, even from encrypted apps.
How? Screen scraping? That would involve installing malware on each phone.
They also are buying the NSO group
Gestapo. They’re going to start kidnapping and killing whoever they feel like soon
I wonder when is EU gonna open up to US Refugees, right now they aren’t gonna take an American’s asylum claim seriously, I have yet to see any American actually been able to obtain political asylum in any western democratic country.
You know the saddest part of this? ICE paid for that. If I made something that blocked that tool from working or even just made a knockoff that does the same thing, they would just seize it.
So that company has more rights and protections than actual humans do.
And that’s considered okay.
Citizens United strikes again.
I hope there’s some technological way we can use to foil these attempts to violate citizens’ privacy en masse.
Reticulum is gaining momentum. I’m planning on investigating how viable a shift off cellular would actually be for my uses and it actually looks pretty doable.
Its honestly going to get to the point where to rid yourself from The Eye of Sauron you’ll have to make the data centers defunct.
I mean, yes, that’s how it works. Humans are not stupid, not always outright violence is used where it’s optimal, but if it were never optimal it wouldn’t exist.
I’ve also started getting interest in early Soviet cinema, its political component is, maybe counterintuitively for us now, that the most decently-looking revolutionary ideology is anarchism, except it doesn’t work, and those movies are full of direct or hidden polemic with various kinds of anarchism in advocacy of bolshevism. And that polemic is still relevant.
People well-versed in Soviet ideology actually just love being approached with anarchist positions, including even ancap. That’s what they want to argue with, and the general positioning of problems is similar with various kinds of anarchism. While the rest of political ideologies they treat as something long discarded and not interesting to discuss. I repeat, Stalinists who know something about Stalinist ideology, won’t respect a fascist, but will be just happy to explain to an anarcho-capitalist how their ideology is an improvement on anarchism.
So, returning to violence, there are situations when limitations on violence, formally perfectly consistent, are limiting only violence against one side.
Does Nokia still make a solid feature phone?
My biggest use case for a smartphone is MFA for work, so if I can convince them to give me a yubikey instead, I’d be interested.
Alternatively, you can carry a phone only for 2fa with no internet connection. I think there are tokens that have the totp screen on them too
Remember: ICE are not people.
Good thing if you don’t do crime, you have nothing to hide!
They’re making up crimes that’s what Nazis do read a history book
Forgot the /s?
