I have to say the spirit of this fake_contacts app is very appealing. Why stop at defending your data, when you can attack?
Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
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Re: Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see this as a key problem of our times. Social convention used to have a stronger impact on behavior. Now it isn't enough for behavior to be disdained, it must be flagrantly illegal.
When was the time when social convention had a stronger impact?
Social convention has always had a strong impact. Where I live, people will cut you in line if you leave a space big enough for them to fit and it's perfectly ok. Where I'm from, if someone did that, you'd end up with an angry mob and probably a fist in your face.
Social conventions are always stronger than the law; at least in person.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/4000-...
But the app in the original article doesn't even work on Android. It is an ios app. The link you provide is about android, right? (Still concerning , however)
Seems you have too many HN tabs open at the same time.. But the article I have linked shows the study done on how apps read this information. Goes both ways for Android and Apple at the time, not sure if much has changed
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you’re not subject to the EU (I.e. don’t have any offices, servers, etc. in the EU) I don’t see how the GDPR is relevant: non-EU citizens generally aren’t subject to the laws of the EU.
Then you cannot have ue customers. Or make wire transfer through the ue.
If thoroughly enforced, which is currently not the case.
Re: Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
#225This can be easily bypassed by cross referencing contact lists on the backend.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's how to get around Clubhouse uploading contacts. We shouldn't have to do this, but here we are. 1. Disable contacts for all your configured accounts 2. Add a dummy Gmail account, enable contacts. 3. Add invitee to dummy account 4. Give contacts access to Clubhouse 5. Send invite 6. Remove contact access 7. enable contacts disabled in 1
0. Don't use Clubhouse because it adds no value?
When you run a business, you have to go where the people are. If my customers are there, I have to be there.
Re: Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
Countries or groups of countries don't get to impose their law on other countries. That's called colonialism, and Europe is supposed to have given it up.
I am not a lawyer, and I don't claim I understand the legal mechanisms involved. I don't even claim GDPR is perfect. But, as I see it, EU is protecting its citizens. If you want to do business with EU citizens you must abide by EU regulations. It's that simple. I don't get how this came to be all of a sudden about colonialism. Any business is free to stay out of EU.
> If you want to do business with EU citizens you must abide by EU regulations.
No, no more than if I want to do business with Saudis I'm liable for punishment if I drink a beer.
Re: Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
#228I have no contacts at all on my phone, I created something by myself. Now I think it would be funny to brute force Androids contacts and just add every number of my countrys phone providers :-)
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Wait until iot becomes mainstream. I foresee tiny chips creating mass scale mutiny against their creators and colonizing us (best case scenario)
I wonder how dystopian sci-fi would read in such future? I mean...what would be their parable of The Matrix?
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Re: Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning
#230Recently Apple added a feature to iOS that allows you only to allow selected photos to be accessible by an app. This allows the user to respond positively to an access request, but allow the app to see only a subset (or zero) actual photos. It would be a very useful feature for Apple to do the same for contacts: the app would think it's getting access to your contacts, but would only actually receive a subset of them…
"Recently Apple added a feature to iOS that allows you only to allow selected photos to be accessible by an app." What we really need to see from Apple is a permissions index in the app store that allows me to inspect, and consider, the permissions that an app will request before installing that app . I shouldn't have to install the app (or do laborious research online) to discover what permissions it will attempt to…
+1 and a filter you can use on related permissions when searching for apps