DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app
DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app
The developer of an iPhone app for sharing sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers has been publicly threatened by the US Attorney General.
This app's developers have been saying some incredibly questionable things about its development and availability, which I would warn people makes it sound A LOT like a honeypot. A WHOLE LOT like a honeypot.
I will now exit stage left and allow you to dismiss me as wacko.
Needs to be distributed. Single points of failure, be them people or tools, are always a mistake.
Exactly. Making a closed source, iOS-only app when you're allegedly trying to help the largest number of at-risk people makes no sense...
The developer chose the correct platform for that then. It's an apple only app.
His excuse? Android requires him to store databases of user IDs, but Apple does it themselves so it's more "private". There are tons of opensource push notification platforms available on Android that you can sideload. But seems like the developer wants the limelight than anything.
Also my honeypot senses are tingling.
Even if it wasn't a honey pot, it IS a honey pot as the DOJ will just subpoena all pushes sent to all devices via it with some lame excuse that the courts will approve.
All the privacy claims were complete BS. Apple will roll over if given a warrant.
Everything about this app is mega sus yep. Should have open sourced it then this wouldnt have happened.
The number one thing that makes this app potentially effective is reach. You don’t build a debase big enough to be worthwhile with a side loaded android app, certainly not in a short period of time.
Well, time to make more of these apps that all feed to a central database outside the US.
Leave the US, now, if you can. Otherwise, find someone outside to publish your code I guess.
What a nightmare.
Please stop telling my team to break the line. Look for resources at home first. Please only leave if there is literally no way to stay and help. I understand that's a thing. I am disabled, but can teach, deploy, and run disposable coms. We also need people running relief potlucks and doing research, and creative communications.
Anyway, what country doesn't have a far right political party and a drawer of serial offenses on indiginous people and POC? Not Canada. None of Europe. Not Japan or Australia.
Nah, cowards run away. If one has the means to leave, one has the means to fight.
That coward's name? Albert Einstein.
Democracy won the last war against fascism because people with the skills and talent needed to fight them left, both taking those skills away and using them against their origin. If they'd stayed in Germany they'd have either been forced to work for the nazis or been prevented from doing anything. People with skills and talent NEED to leave.
Spoken like someone with nothing to lose.