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The FBI just wants the public to think their phone is secure. I got news for you, it's not secure. Look up Snowden.
Reminder that none of your data is safe on a cloud. Law enforcement can get a judge to sign off and make Google/Apple decrypt your cloud data and give it to them.
If you really want your data private you have to put it on an encrypted hard drive. Recommend Veracrypt.
This is just an advertisement. There is no phone the government cannot get into if they wanted.
Big claims require big proof. But I bet all you have is a hunch.
The big claim is that they couldn't get into the reporter's iPhone. You are right to demand proof before believing something so obviously made up.
Is this an advertisement? Sure, yes. The government can get into any phone? No.
Any iPhone? Almost certainly.
Virtually any phone I would say, yeah. Either by rubberhose cryptanalysis or by sheer time, money, and tools, they most likely can.
I tried GrapheneOS on my Pixel, and it's pretty cool, but unfortunately I want my phone to have full functionality. I'll sacrifice some privacy and just practice digital minimalism, which ultimately is the best form of privacy.
What didnt work for you?
I just got tired of everything being a hack. I simply need my phone to work and I also see a bit of irony installing play services just to receive proper notifications. I know I know the whole app sandboxing bit. But still, it seems counterintuitive I don't have to worry if my phone's going to let me down if I'm driving a need to download some obscure parking app or if I need tap to pay to function which in the United States I do. One time I was at Costco, renewing my membership, they needed me to download the app real quick to do something on the account. But because the app wouldn't function right, my wife had to do it.
I needed to buy some ribs the other day, but I forgot my wallet. If I had tapped to pay on my phone, that wouldn't have been an issue.
Stop requiring accounts just to view content.
Fucking scumbags
This news sparks joy. It’s a shame the FBI is wasting their time on petty political bullshit like this instead of going after real crime. What a shameful chapter for the FBI, and that’s really saying something given their illustrious history.
Social contract is breaking.
No need to see any legitimacy in this government or its goons.
Right!?
Like ohhh. So important to see if someone liked a post. Meanwhile tech espionage and terrorists take over the world.
How dare we 'radicalize' over the idea of free Healthcare.
Absolute sham of 'protection'.
You act like there's a cabal of kid rapist running the world.
The "funny" thing is that anybody thinking that a mere 5 years ago would have been deemed a conspiracy nutter.
That's not by accident. Every right wing conspiracy is a ridiculous pastiche of the shit they are really getting up to, or intend to in the near future. No doubt Pizzagate was invented to make people incredulous about claims of secret cabals of kid rapists in elite circles. Every accusation a confession.
I bet they are making the frogs gay, too.
Every accusation [is] a confession
That is indeed something which has been very visibly and very often proven, again and again and again, in the last couple of years.
I reckon it was always so, but we just forgot it during the period after WWII and the ressurging of the far-right.
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