Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App
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The fascists are arresting anyone they please without due process.
Anyone, or just those in the country illegally? Also law enforcement officers aren't "fascists" just because they're LEOs.
Anyone. Jesus christ have you not been watching the news? There have been countless American citizens detained by ICE because they don't know, or care, what your legal status is when they arrest you. They just grab Anyone.
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It's closed source, and the build and publishing pipeline isn't transparent.
For me that makes this no different than a potential ICE honey pot
which is exactly what this whole 'meltdown' frame for the pr hints at. republicans know how to use publicity stunts to get what they want.
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No, and even worse, its only for apple devices lmao. These kids are so unserious in their activism it would be funny if it werent so sad. If shit hits the fan, this stuff will go down instantly and im sure it has no backup plan for a Tor based or p2p service. Activists in the US should start using Briar. This situation is exactly what it was made for and people have to get their tech game up fast or they will be done for. Get a shitty 80$ android phone if you only have an iphone. Install a panic trigger app that will wipe the phone if you are in trouble.
On ICEBlocks website it says:
Modeled after Waze but for ICE sightings, the app ensures user privacy by storing no personal data, making it impossible to trace reports back to individual users.
Which worries me, because if its closed source then thats a worthless promise and actually makes the app a perfect candidate for a honeypot or backdoor.
apple is the majority of the market, no? so if e.g. a company wanted to get a product out for a client asap, apple would be the market to aim for.
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The fascists are arresting anyone they please without due process.
Anyone, or just those in the country illegally? Also law enforcement officers aren't "fascists" just because they're LEOs.
You asleep or something?
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It's closed source, and the build and publishing pipeline isn't transparent.
For me that makes this no different than a potential ICE honey pot
can’t even find “Joshua Aaron” on linked in or github. feels a little sus. my moneys on honey pot
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apple is the majority of the market, no? so if e.g. a company wanted to get a product out for a client asap, apple would be the market to aim for.
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.
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PR for who? Who is on the fence about ICE?
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.
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Does her word override the first amendment?
Doxxing federal agents and putting their lives in danger is a crime. The first amendment doesn't give you the right to do that without repercussions.
Showing the current location of [what is supposed to be] a public servant in a public location acting publicly is not doxxing.
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The fascists are arresting anyone they please without due process.
Anyone, or just those in the country illegally? Also law enforcement officers aren't "fascists" just because they're LEOs.
Multiple natural born citizens have been kidnapped by ICE. Surely you've heard of that under your rock by now.
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While this is true, most people are not so tech savvy, maybe giving an option to mask app Icon to user choice can help it hide better.
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)
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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.
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.
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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.
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It's going to be filled with false warnings from MAGA idiots and trolls...
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Waze and Google maps don't let you report them for the purpose of helping illegal immigrants avoid law enforcement, or to tell people where to attack.
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.
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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...
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It's closed source, and the build and publishing pipeline isn't transparent.
For me that makes this no different than a potential ICE honey pot
Haven't followed it much (EU), can you elaborate who did what and what can be done potentially?
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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...
This is a really good comment
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It's closed source, and the build and publishing pipeline isn't transparent.
For me that makes this no different than a potential ICE honey pot
the honey pot for what? people who don't like ice? that makes no sense
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apple is the majority of the market, no? so if e.g. a company wanted to get a product out for a client asap, apple would be the market to aim for.
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
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This gives honeypot vibes. IOS only with no way to access via browser?
