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France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people(gazettengr.com)

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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.

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AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world
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Guess degoogled phones with custom OSes will soon be illegal then?

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sadreality@kbin.social
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Linux and encrypted messengers too lol

If you don’t share dick pic you sent to your partner with the spooks… You go to the gulag labour camp until you redeem yourself.

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mycus@kbin.social
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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?

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

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piecat@lemmy.world
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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.

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