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Florencia (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 12 days 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 · 12 days 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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  • herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

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

  • kn0wmad1c@programming.dev
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    Could they install it in a sandbox quarantined away from the rest of the stuff on their phones?

    • oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip
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      11 days ago

      Probably, but until they see at least 20 pictures of your 5 year old in a bikini, they’ll just beat you.

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    11 days ago

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

    • Balldowern@lemmy.zip
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      11 days ago

      The caste system ended in 1947. We know the laws there.

      The only thing holding their people back is the Reservation system.

      • redparadise@lemmygrad.ml
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        10 days ago

        Bruh are you pretending to be a BJP Devotee

      • shneancy@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        the same way racism ended in 1964?

        • 3abas@lemmy.world
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          10 days ago

          In 2015, my Indian coworker in the US sat on a different table with another team on a company lunch, because my Indian boss wouldn’t talk to him because he comes from a lower caste.

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    11 days ago

    How do the corporations feel about this when they have workers in India?

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 days ago

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

    • laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 days ago

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

  • spez@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago

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

    • Richard@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

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

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    11 days ago

    Does the iOS one get this sweeping access to everything as well (which would require Apple to specifically give it entitlements)?

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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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    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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    12 days ago

    I use Custom Rom(LineageOS)

  • Jack@slrpnk.net
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    11 days ago

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

    Sorry how to install it exactly?

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    11 days ago

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

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    11 days ago

    Bring back dumb phones!

    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 days ago

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

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      10 days ago

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

  • bstix@feddit.dk
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    11 days ago

    Cool…how can I get it?

    They too should suffer my endless search history for obscurities. I want them to download all of my USB storage of virus infected malware. I will sit idly and tap my fingertips against each other while my SMS messages corrupt their society from within.

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    12 days ago

    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.

    • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether.

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

    • nimpnin@sopuli.xyz
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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

    • Constant Pain@lemmy.world
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      If you think every phone has some sort of IME, installing a custom ROM means nothing.

      • Default Username@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 days ago

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

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          This doesn’t make sense to me.
          Why do they even need it to be that way?

          Compartmentalisations was one of the basic points in system design methodology that I thought (because I read it somewhere) smartphones would also be built upon. So why compromise the whole thing to a supply chain attack?

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            Why do they even need it to be that way?

            so that they can surveil you

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              10 days ago

              That part, I already understand.
              But you needed to have some sort of excuse for such things back when smartphones were new.

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            11 days ago

            In exchange for giant purchase orders from the government. Qualcomm etc are simply corrupt.

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