A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

  • IAccidentallyCame@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Wonder if Google, Apple, or SoC makera are asked or secretly mandated to leave certain backdoors in. I know mobile providers have quite a bit they can see on their end.

    It’s a good thing we’re always presented with two choices for everything, like mobile OS’s, to control our choices like we’re toddlers.

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      1 year ago

      They don’t really need to, the company making Pegasus is very very skilled, they however get paid for that as well, its absolutely not worth it for a normal person usually.

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      1 year ago

      Mobile operators have baseband which is why we have modem isolation. And some of us can see quite a bit on our end, too.