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Florencia (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months ago

A compulsory mandated app installed on every Indian citizen's new phone

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A compulsory mandated app installed on every Indian citizen's new phone

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Florencia (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months ago
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https://www.livemint.com/news/india/if-you-don-t-want-jyotiraditya-scindia-says-sanchar-saathi-app-is-optional-amid-strong-opposition-protests-11764659707854.html

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    Crazy this is a thing actually being rolled out and it hasn’t hit world headlines.

    Europe, USA and other countries are not far behind this initiative once they (governments) see how even more successful it is for collecting and sorting data to control citizens.

    Time to go to GrapheneOS folks.

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      I’ve read about it in three different places this morning, I don’t live in India. I thi I it’s hit “world headlines”

    • RodgeGrabTheCat 🇨🇦🏴‍☠️@sh.itjust.works
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      BBC had an article this morning. I follow them for a different perspective on North American news.

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      It absolutely hit world headlines way before you commented… I had seen it multiple times from several sources before this thread was made. From local (I’m Swedish) news, global news (grounded and kagi news), youtube and mastodon (links to MSM articles about it).

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    Lol when this inevitably get backdoored/exploited, it’s gonna be glorious

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      Oh it probably already is just look up the test run they did with their covid app

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    Just saw and ranted about this. I HATE THIS FUCKING FASCIST GOVERNMENT WITH EVERY FIBER OF BY BEING!!!

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      at this pace you are going to be sent to a concentration camp soon

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    I lowkey expect every modern device to be compromised (unless you’re running custom roms). Whether it’s Pegasus or something else. Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether.

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      Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether

      Even if you can’t, minimizing smartphone use, uptime and carrying mitigates some of the risk

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      Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether.

      Just make sure your pagers are not backdoored with Semtex either.

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      If you think every phone has some sort of IME, installing a custom ROM means nothing.

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        A phone’s baseband (modem) runs its own proprietary firmware with full RAM access.

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    They cannot get rid of the caste system but can successfully surveil 90% of the population

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    India saw Britain and said “I’m not going to let my former colonisers out do me.”

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    Reuters cited sources to report that US tech giant Apple plans not to comply with the mandate and will convey the same to New Delhi

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    This is just another crowdstrike incident in the making: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_outages

  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world
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    Bring back dumb phones!

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      You can get a Nokia flip phone on Amazon for under $100. Before all the tariff BS it was more like $60. My daughter has been using one exclusively for about six months.

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    The modified (Modi-fied?) offer of it now being optional is ridiculous. Keep protesting the policy my brothers and sisters.

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    Looks like the backlash has made them reassure us that it IS OPTIONAL for now…

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      They turned down the heat slightly because the frogs noticed the boiling.

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    https://www.amazon.com/Nokia-3310-3G-Unlocked-T-Mobile/dp/B075FL4H89

    Sorry how to install it exactly?

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      Currently unavailable. We don’t know when or if this item will be back in stock.

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    I use Custom Rom(LineageOS)

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