1d ago

India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54116540

India's telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed

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Cyber "safety" app. Nice...
We really need to come up with some DIYable devices. A future where most nation states insist in this sort of backdoor feels distressingly inevitable at this stage...
- What makes you think they would allow such a thing to exist? The french government was apparently after GrapheneOS for its extreme security and privacy.
  The EU is after chat software with its chat control bill. Governments only care about power. Once they have it, it will be abused.
  
  They might ban it, but if its diy there's little they can do to actually enforce it. People can 3d print guns or make bombs because you can't control basic tech. Making a mobile device is harder because the carriers could try and detect unofficial access. But even having a device that's only for wifi is better than allowing the goverrment to constantly monitor everything their citizens do and say online.
"cyber security"? You mean Pegasus?
- Fascists have a loonnngggg history of selling their bullshit laws using names that completely misrepresent what they do, and which would make those arguing against them look bad to a gullible public.
- It sounds better than surveillance.

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