They also are buying the NSO group
Gestapo. They’re going to start kidnapping and killing whoever they feel like soon
I wonder when is EU gonna open up to US Refugees, right now they aren’t gonna take an American’s asylum claim seriously, I have yet to see any American actually been able to obtain political asylum in any western democratic country.
Non-expert opinion: it’s dangerous.
Paragon’s “zero-click” Graphite program can quietly invade the mobile phone of its target and extract its contents, even from encrypted apps.
How? Screen scraping? That would involve installing malware on each phone.
Looks like they use 0-day exploits to indeed install spyware on targets
Meta shared information with WhatsApp that led them to identify, mitigate, and attribute a Paragon zero-click exploit. On January 31, 2025, WhatsApp sent notifications to approximately 90 WhatsApp accounts they believed were targeted with Paragon’s spyware, including journalists and members of civil society.
Um… one problem for Mr. NSA:
I don’t have friends. Zero groupchats. Don’t even have any mainsteam comms apps. Not even a Lemmy client (I use browser lmao). How am I supposed to get the .pdf?
😁
I mean if you’re a genuine target they’ll find a way.
(Also a nitpick, Paragon is originally an Israeli corporation, altho they do have an US division since 2021)
Lol. It relies on WhatsApp.
Weird that they would target one of the biggest mainstream chat apps in whole of Europe
Oh. I have no doubt that a lot of people are vulnerable to the exploit, but I’m entertained by the fact that you can stop the exploit by simply removing a chat app.
I wonder if theres a way for us to watch the watchers.
I wonder if Anonymous can dox ice agents.
You know the saddest part of this? ICE paid for that. If I made something that blocked that tool from working or even just made a knockoff that does the same thing, they would just seize it.
So that company has more rights and protections than actual humans do.
And that’s considered okay.
Citizens United strikes again.
Remember: ICE are not people.
They were already dangerous when Trump told them to stand back and standby. They became significantly more dangerous when he deputized them and instructed them to wear masks and avoid being identified while they rounded up opposition. They became even more dangerous when Doge gave them access to everything the government knows about citizens to improve the effectiveness of their harassment and intimidation. They need became more dangerous when they arrested blue-state politicians for asking questions and nothing came of it. And yeah… the better their tools get, the more dangerous they become.
But simplifying this to “experts say it’s dangerous” under sells reality so badly.
I hope there’s some technological way we can use to foil these attempts to violate citizens’ privacy en masse.
Reticulum is gaining momentum. I’m planning on investigating how viable a shift off cellular would actually be for my uses and it actually looks pretty doable.
What area do you live in that reticulum has enough coverage to remove the dependency on cell service
It’s called GrapheneOS
Alternative ODes surely do have better privacy than Android, but that’s probably not sufficient. On Smartphones, there runs not a single CPU like on a laptop, but more like 5 computers and only one of them is controlled by the OS. For example, there is a baseband processor and a radio modem. And the SIM card is a computer. And part of these can be controlled remotely (have you ever wondered how your phone automatically re-programs it parameters when you change providers?).
And then there are gaps in authentication in the radio prozocol: Your phone / SIM card authenticates against a radio tower so that the right phone user pays the bill. But the phone has no way to detect a rogue mobile tower…
I’m aware of GrapheneOS, but I don’t know how their tracking works, so I also don’t know if GrapheneOS can offer enough protection.
Good thing if you don’t do crime, you have nothing to hide!
Forgot the /s?
They’re making up crimes that’s what Nazis do read a history book
And what is completely normal and legal today can be criminal tomorrow, so no need to worry for all kinds of companies and instututions hovering up everybody’s private data.
Yeah that’s why I keep a ring camera in my bathroom. Got to make sure that corporate knows I am doing nothing wrong!
“poops once ever 3 days or a week” sends miralax, metamucil ad to your phone.
It’s messed up when some random spyware Chinese camera is safer to use than anything made in the US.
they made huwei phones a boogeyman of spyware thus having it "sanctioned’ from us market, because its competing with low cost phones.
Yeah it’s great how the law is complex enough to criminalize any aspect of your life that is needed for persecution!!
Criminal prosecution has always mostly been used for pleb control.
That’s why rich pedos never go to prison.
Does Nokia still make a solid feature phone?
My biggest use case for a smartphone is MFA for work, so if I can convince them to give me a yubikey instead, I’d be interested.
Alternatively, you can carry a phone only for 2fa with no internet connection. I think there are tokens that have the totp screen on them too
Its honestly going to get to the point where to rid yourself from The Eye of Sauron you’ll have to make the data centers defunct.
And it’ll never ever be used against law-abiding, tax-paying, god-fearing, naturalized citizens ever—hand over heart, fingers crossed.
It shouldnt even be used on people who arent any of that.
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