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Apps are definitely evil.

If they don't want to spy on you then a web page is perfectly fine.

With the push for global digital ID's, regardless of what they are labeled, not sure how more people are not seeing 2FA for what it is, an early form of global ID. 2FA requires you tie your personal cellphone(in almost all cases), to an account. What do we know about cellphones? They track you, they record you, they listen to you. And they export reams of data about you back to the cellphone company, OS company, and app companies. And now you've joined that to additional data points at your work, where you spend the majority of your life.

An ankle monitor isn't this good.

https://armysurpluswarehouse.com/vintage-kellogg-switchboard-supply-co-5812-mx-wall-phone-box-army-signal-corp/?source=patrick.net

https://notthebee.com/article/have-a-laugh-with-this-commercial-for-the-nokia-brick-made-in-the-style-of-an-overwrought-iphone-advertisement

NuttBoxer says

Hircus says

Exploiting 2FA alone buys you nothing.

Session hijacking? XSS? I don't need your password, I just need to access your account once and I can change it. Worse, if I steal your mobile device(more likely since you probably take it everywhere), I now have access to all your 2FA codes. I simply go to your sites, click the

forgot password

link, and easily gain access.

Ok, I interpreted what you said differently. I thought you meant that the usage of 2FA would introduce a new vulnerability in itself, allowing one to defeat 2fa, guaranteed to cause a security problem. What you meant was that 2FA would not solve all possible security problems, which it obviously cant.

NuttBoxer says

And you haven't addressed the HUGE loss of privacy 2FA entails. I don't see enough advantages over the method I've proposed that would ever justify giving up my privacy/freedom.

I don't need to address this. This, like so many of your "counter arguments" are just strawmen. Advancing / debating things I never said to make it sound like youre right and I'm wrong. This all started when you made the claim that 2fa has zero security benefits/applications, which is just so blatantly false. Whether or not you or other people wish to use it is an entirely different discussion. The use of anything always has pros and cons, and I never said that I think you or others need 2fa or anything like that.

For the record though, I don't disagree with your point about 2fa being a privacy issue. I think its a great point actually, and I can think of plenty of other issues with it, as I'm sure you have.

DooDahMan says

Hackers can break into your iPhone even when it's switched off. Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a way to run malware on Apple's iPhones, even when the device is switched off.

I always hated how they prevented removal of the battery. Preventing users from physical control, even if their original intention was for planned obsolescence for moar profit, and not big brother shit, but removal of control seems to lead to malicious shit later.

I suppose even with a removable battery, they could have added an extra internal battery like a desktop CMOS battery to accomplish this, but people would question that much more - why add an extra battery for the scenario when a user wants the battery removed?

This is why hardware switches on some of these new privacy phones is such a win. Well, assuming there's not some way to subvert the switch via software...

DooDahMan says

For instance, upon user-initiated shutdown, the iPhone remains locatable via the Find My network.

Bullshit: I switched my phone off and all I could get from the Find My app on another device was my phone's last location.

https://reclaimthenet.org/russia-fines-threema-app-for-not-collecting-user-data/

June 28, 2022
Russia fines Threema app for not collecting user data
Fined under "anti-terror" laws.
By Ken Macon

A court in Moscow fined Switzerland based messenger service Threema for refusing to comply with the Russian “anti-terror” law.

Threema competes with Telegram and Signal.

Threema was found guilty of non-compliance with rules under the anti-terror law. The law requires tech companies to store data, such as calls, messages, emails, photos, and videos, on their servers for at least six months, and allow the government access to that data if requested.

Speaking to German news outlet Welt am Sonntag, a spokesperson for Threema said that Russian authorities “apparently launched an investigation in March 2022 probably to make an example.”

“Of course, under no circumstances will we hand over any data to Russian authorities,” Threema added, arguing it is governed by Swiss law, which does not allow the transfer of user data to other countries, much less authoritarian countries like Russia.

The company will also not pay the fine.

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-vehicles-to-have-a-surveillance-based-speed-limiter/

July 4, 2022
From this week, all new vehicles in the EU with have to have a surveillance-based speed limiter
GPS is the most common method.

Tracking and surveillance tech is finding its use in yet another segment of public life in the West – road traffic. ...

For the moment, they are “opt-in,” since drivers can still turn them off. But, the plan is to remove this option completely.

Your car is also spying on you.

https://summit.news/2022/07/05/from-tomorrow-all-new-vehicles-in-the-eu-will-have-surveillance-black-boxes/

You always have the choice to buy used. I'm also pretty sure that unlike cellphones, you have the freedom to identify and remove tracking SW and HW if you own the vehicle.

Patrick says

https://summit.news/2022/07/05/from-tomorrow-all-new-vehicles-in-the-eu-will-have-surveillance-black-boxes/

I thought about this a few days ago when watching a high speed chase - soon they will start pushing to give the govt a button to turn off any car. A series of very deadly high speed chases will all magically occur within 1 week, and it will be the week before some elite group meets to "discuss things". They will run over little girls so they can guilt trip people into "hating children" if you dare not support "the button".

https://instapundit.com/529918/

US carriers want to bring ‘screen zero’ lock screen ads to smartphones.

https://reclaimthenet.org/rcmp-used-smartphone-malware-to-spy-on-targets/

July 8, 2022
Royal Canadian Mounted Police used smartphone malware to spy on targets
A breach of rules.

Members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have been using malware in their investigations since 2018 that can secretly turn phones and laptops into full-fledged spying devices, with the news, and some, but not all details about the program only just emerging now.

Traditionally unwilling to “share” what types of surveillance technology it uses unless it has to, mostly pressed during inquiries, this time once again the public is becoming aware of the facts a full four years after the software was first deployed.

https://reclaimthenet.org/tim-hortons-privacy-settlement/

July 30, 2022
Tim Hortons offers customers a free coffee and baked item in settlement for spying on people
The company's invasive tracking was revealed this year.

As settlement in class action lawsuits, Canadian coffee giant Tim Hortons will offer a free hot beverage and a baked good as an apology for tracking the location of users of its app. The app tracked users when they left or entered a Tim Hortons competitor such as Starbucks, their home or workplace, and more.

In June, regulators said that the data collection was in violation of the law.

“Tim Hortons clearly crossed the line by amassing a huge amount of highly sensitive information about its customers. Following people’s movements every few minutes of every day was clearly an inappropriate form of surveillance.

No one should ever install any app. Anything an app does can also be done by a web page these days. The only reason the want you to install an app is to do exactly this kind of spying on your every movement.

https://notthebee.com/article/amazon-just-bought-roomba-which-means-the-company-will-soon-have-an-extremely-valuable-map-of-your-entire-home

Amazon just bought Roomba, which means if you have one Amazon will soon have an extremely valuable map of the inside of your home

I was working for an AI company that gave moving quotes by having users video the inside of their homes. They were also working on spacial recognition for a insurance offering.

https://unherd.com/2021/06/big-techs-threat-to-democracy/

The Sleep Number Bed is typical of smart home devices, as Harvard business school Professor Shoshana Zuboff describes in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. It comes with an app, of course, which you’ll need to install to get the full benefits. Benefits for whom? Well, to know that you would need to spend some time with the 16-page privacy policy that comes with the bed. There you’ll read about third-party sharing, analytics partners, targeted advertising, and much else. Meanwhile, the User Agreement specifies that the company can share or exploit your personal information even “after you deactivate or cancel … your Sleep Number account.” You are unilaterally informed that the firm does not honor “Do Not Track” notifications. By the way, the bed also transmits the audio signals in your bedroom. (I am not making this up.)

A bed which spies on you.

Patrick says

No one should ever install any app. Anything an app does can also be done by a web page these days. The only reason the want you to install an app is to do exactly this kind of spying on your every movement.

Yeah, no webpage ever tracks your every move. Websites never install Google scripts to track and market to you across different sites.

Plus, I think there are still plenty of APIs accessible via code on the iPhone that are not accessible from html and javascript. The speed is massively different as well.

Apps from the iPhone web store are authenticated, so you know who to sue. Plus, Apps have a history there and can also be terminated very quickly if something is discovered. Apps (like websites) are pretty well sandboxed these days. You can control which apps have access to photos, addressbook, gps, camera, microphone, etc.

Google's store and sideloading on either platform... well, you're on your own.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/chinese-tyranny-american-surveillance-is-scary-too/

SunnyvaleCA says

Yeah, no webpage ever tracks your every move. Websites never install Google scripts to track and market to you across different sites.

Have you not heard of Brave or Tor? But really, it sounds like you aren't familiar with the lack of control most smartphones allow their users, which prevents you from blocking tracking. Plus cellphones ping off a tower.

SunnyvaleCA says

Plus, I think there are still plenty of APIs accessible via code on the iPhone that are not accessible from html and javascript. The speed is massively different as well.

Might have more to do with their internal DNS servers that they attempt to force ALL traffic over, giving up even more data.

SunnyvaleCA says

You can control which apps have access to photos, addressbook, gps, camera, microphone, etc.

Except for the ones that block you from exercising any controls, and the ones that ignore your selections, and collect the data anyway. On a laptop you can add HW shut-offs not available on most cellphones.
Right before the scamdemic, google installed a "health" app that I am unable to remove, or clear data from. That's never happened on my laptop or headless servers.

https://www.unplugged.com/upphone

https://babylonbee.com/news/new-breakthrough-treatment-for-depression-just-hammer-you-smash-with-your-phone

NEW YORK, NY — Pfizer has announced the launch of a new breakthrough treatment for depression, Thorovil, a pharmaceutical that consists of a heavy metal head mounted at a right angle at the end of a handle. Patients prescribed Thorovil can use the object to smash their cell phones into tiny pieces, instantly curing all depression.

"We found that when patients smashed their smartphones into tiny bits with a claw hammer, 100% of them saw an immediate and lasting decrease in depression symptoms," said Pfizer researcher Fritz Von Schlegelsteinhausen. "We don't yet understand the connection between smashing your phone and being instantly cured of depression, but you can't argue with those results."

Thorovil has already been authorized by the FDA and has been approved for all ages. It's currently available with a doctor's prescription for only $12,000 per unit from Pfizer or $12 at the local hardware store.

"This is a giant leap forward in the field of mental health, and medicine more broadly," said Dean of Harvard Medical School George Q. Daley, MD, PhD. "We're not sure why none of us thought of this before."

https://reclaimthenet.org/us-analytics-firm-covid-19-decree-violation-scores/

Voter analytics firm PredictWise harvested location data from tens of millions of US cellphones during the initial Covid lockdown months and used this data to assign a “Covid-19 decree violation” score to the people associated with the phones.

These Covid-19 decree violation scores were calculated by analyzing nearly two billion global positioning system (GPS) pings to get “real-time, ultra-granular locations patterns.” People who were “on the go more often than their neighbors” were given a high Covid-19 decree violation score while those who mostly or always stayed at home were given a low Covid-19 decree violation score.

Not only did PredictWise use this highly sensitive location data to monitor millions of Americans’ compliance with Covid lockdown decrees but it also combined this data with follow-up surveys to assign “Covid concern” scores to the people who were being surveilled. PredictWise then used this data to help Democrats in several swing states to target more than 350,000 “Covid concerned” Republicans with Covid-related campaign ads.

In its white paper, PredictWise claims that Democrats were able to “deploy this real-time location model to open up just over 40,000 persuasion targets that normally would have fallen off” for Mark Kelly who was running for Senate at the time and has now been elected.

https://reclaimthenet.org/india-5g-surveillance/

India’s PM says 5G rollout will help boost the use of surveillance
Facial recognition, automatic number plate recognition tech, and drones.

Patrick says

https://reclaimthenet.org/india-5g-surveillance/

India’s PM says 5G rollout will help boost the use of surveillance
Facial recognition, automatic number plate recognition tech, and drones.

That is 5% of usage case, rest is in the hands of the commi bureaucrats whose aim is only to looting and blackmailing public.

Elon Musk is contemplating a phone that does not spy on you.

https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1596222793388945408

Patrick says

NEW YORK, NY — Pfizer has announced the launch of a new breakthrough treatment for depression, Thorovil, a pharmaceutical that consists of a heavy metal head mounted at a right angle at the end of a handle. Patients prescribed Thorovil can use the object to smash their cell phones into tiny pieces, instantly curing all depression.

I have a cell phone, but I can't say it depresses me at all. Also, this is the only thing I use that would be something like "a social network".

Because the car already does all the spying he needs?

The temptation to control via technology is too great.

@JackPosobiec
4h
Shanghai police are grabbing phones to search citizens for ties to the protests

Patrick says

JackPosobiec
4h
Shanghai police are grabbing phones to search citizens for ties to the protests

They learned from the FBI and the J6 protests.

It's encouraging that the police even need to grab phones at all.

In the worst of all possible worlds, the phone will simply be constantly reporting your location, web usage, and all your calls and texts to the CCP/FBI at all times so they won't need to grab your phone. They will just use your phone to convict you without trial, go to where you are at the moment, and kill you.

https://gettr.com/comment/c1lev8f5117

WEF and their Global Leaders are trying to enforce digital IDs and CBDCs all over the world. Bill Gates has spent billions promoting it. Once they get that, there will be no fr
feedom for anyone anywhere.

Apple issued an "Update" to Airdrop a few days ago, just before the Crackdown, only in China. Chinese iphone Users are unable to send pics/communicate with Airdrop.

https://qz.com/apple-airdrop-china-protest-tool-1849824435

US companies like apple dont seem likely to put their revenue at risk to stand up for what's right. At least not w/ chyna. Lately they seem to be happy to promote rainbow crap, but it's possible its because dems are able to twist their arm easily into political crap like opposing the elonification of twitter.

One of these days im gonna join an open source project for mesh networking. A free populace needs it. The chinese need it right now. The app stores as a filter for WrongThinkSoftware will always be a problem though.

Yeah, phones and all the other ways you log in and are connected means the analytics people know details of your life you are not even aware of. But the next level is going to be digital ID, digital currencies and most likely loss of liberty and/or assets for those who don’t please the globalist overlord dictatorship.