can’t even find “Joshua Aaron” on linked in or github. feels a little sus. my moneys on honey pot

Turn of your capitalism brain ffs. This is not the place for companies and markets. If there is a financial interest then the app is worthless by design. iOS is not a trustable platform for anything security related so obviously you shouldnt use it for anything that concerns your physical safety. Dont forget, apple will always bend the knee to governments in the end.

Probably lots of people in red states. Farmers for instance, people who generally buy the Republican bullshit, but may personally rely heavily on immigrant workers. ICE puts them in a really tough position.

Showing the current location of [what is supposed to be] a public servant in a public location acting publicly is not doxxing.

Multiple natural born citizens have been kidnapped by ICE. Surely you've heard of that under your rock by now.

going to a website (not tech savvy enough for this) vs going to the settings on an app and select a new icon (yay anyone can do it)

I don't know, don't Apple have a reasonable track record of pushing back against governments? I personally have even less faith in the security of android based devices or Android phone manufacturers.

Apple have a reasonable track record of pushing back against governments

Only when it comes to individual consumer cases like terrorists or other crimes. When it comes to large scale political movements then they are very quick to lend authoritarian governments a hand, see for example their cooperation with the CCP to suppress the Hong Kong protests. But they have also always cooperated with police to some degree and this has only gotten worse.

Forbes for the lack of a better source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/10/09/apple-sells-privacy-to-consumers-but-its-quietly-helping-police-use-iphones-for-surveillance/

There’s a widespread perception that Apple has a combative relationship with law enforcement after the company refused to help the FBI hack into the iPhone of the shooter in the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attacks. But since then, it has ramped up collaboration with police through the conference and other meetings with agencies at both Cupertino HQ and its Elk Grove campus, as well as a variety of previously unreported projects helping cops use iPhones, Macs, Apple Vision Pro and CarPlay, the emails show. Most of these projects have not been announced publicly.

Apple declined to comment.

People just love believing in Apple for some weird reasons.

It's going to be filled with false warnings from MAGA idiots and trolls...

In all actuality I believe the point of being able to report a speed trap is to allow people to avoid getting caught breaking the law which amounts to the same thing.

Google maps and Waze can absolutely be used to show where to attack law enforcement. They can also be used to avoid law enforcement. What you're saying is that you feel like the intention of the app is to break the law in some way but you've been given a similar app that does basically the same thing and you back up nothing or what you've said with documented case law or even the laws you think this app is breaking. Cool. Good talk.

Was curious so Iooked up the app's site.

Apparently the devs claim they can't release it on Android because "There's no way to be anonymous on the play store", but it's even more impossible to be anonymous on the platform they've released.
That's how you know the developer is incredibly stupid and/or shady as hell- because they've never even heard of Fdroid?

Makes me think the app is a troll/trojan horse (not as in infection, trojan horse as in it has alterior motives)

The Drumpf crew "losing it" over the app just makes it more questionable. They love to create a firestorm so people talk about the thing "they definitely don't want you to use!!" to get people to do things...

Haven't followed it much (EU), can you elaborate who did what and what can be done potentially?

This is a really good comment

the honey pot for what? people who don't like ice? that makes no sense

im not a developer or a genius but I'm pretty sure you can write an app once using a framework like react native or whatever and then compile it for both android and ios and optionally release them along with the source code used to compile them

This gives honeypot vibes. IOS only with no way to access via browser?

You see "market" and think capitalism. By market, I meant, market-share. More users of apple products than android. So if a developer wanted greater reach...

They could argue that attempting to track ICE is illegal, and all those using the app are to be arrested and tried for their crimes.

Secret police would probably have an interest in lists of people downloading an app tracking their movements no? Particularly if it was downloaded to a mobile tracking device they carry with themselves at most times.

they mentioned that its because push notifications require device id and that would make it easy to be tracked if aubpoenaed.

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Sorry, there will not be an Android version because there is no way to provide 100% anonymity. Each person's device ID would have to be stored and that information becomes discoverable should the government issue a subpoena. Only iOS made this possible and completely protects the users.

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