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Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by wat10000 »

malfist wrote: post #6
john_strinlai wrote: post #5

> This thing also has a "Text the President" button that auto-fills your message with "Greatest President Ever!" and then collects your name and phone number. when is the onion going to go bankrupt? it has to be soon, i imagine. no way it can compete with reality at this point. (the rest of the article is a bit too depressing for me to comment on at the moment, other than saying "wow, gross")

It's ming boggling just how....cringe... these billionaires that want to run the world are. Makes you wonder if the personas that seek billions are correlated strongly with mental illnesses.

Imagine having $999 million and deciding it’s not enough. There’s no way a mentally healthy person could reach that conclusion.

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by SequoiaHope »

HumblyTossed wrote: post #110
john_strinlai wrote: post #5

> This thing also has a "Text the President" button that auto-fills your message with "Greatest President Ever!" and then collects your name and phone number. when is the onion going to go bankrupt? it has to be soon, i imagine. no way it can compete with reality at this point. (the rest of the article is a bit too depressing for me to comment on at the moment, other than saying "wow, gross")

How can people see the propaganda that happens in, say, North Korea, but fail to see what is happening in their own country? It boggles. It truly does.

It looks very different from the outside than it does from the inside. We are all subject to this.

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by jrmg »

I’m surprised to see no comments on this yet:

[The White House app] ships with 3 embedded trackers including Huawei Mobile Services Core (yes, the Chinese company the US government sanctioned, shipping tracking infrastructure inside the sitting president's official app)

The executive branch has decided this company is so dangerous I can’t buy a monitor made by them - but it’s embedding its SDK in its official app?!

I realize the decision makers probably don’t even know it’s there - it was just added by whatever contractor built the app, but that’s arguably even worse.

And I have absolutely no doubt that if it was discovered in a political opponent’s app, and the administration wanted to harm them, there would be no compunction about using that fact against them.

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by flir »

esseph wrote: post #115
thatguy0900 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trump saying recently that he hates hanging around successful people and prefers losers because he doesn't want to listen to other people's stories really speaks to the poor self esteem angle

“I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better.” “I hate guys that are very, very successful, and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people who like to listen to my success,” he added.

Whew. If ever the phrase "small dick energy" was appropriate...

(I have nothing useful to add, I'm just boggling).

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by flir »

jakeydus wrote: post #82
kevincox wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. > - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The people who would, shouldn't. The people who should, won't.

There's an old SF short where one of the people who won't gets forced to. Battery of psychological tests followed by "you're one of the rulers now, and you're going to hate every minute of it, but we enslave you so the rest of us have a peaceful, prosperous planet."

Wish I could remember the name/author.

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by hackyhacky »

SequoiaHope wrote: post #122
HumblyTossed wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can people see the propaganda that happens in, say, North Korea, but fail to see what is happening in their own country? It boggles. It truly does.

It looks very different from the outside than it does from the inside. We are all subject to this.

Does it though? I don't see Canadian or Swiss or Slovak propaganda regularly reminding us that their country's leader is the "greatest ever."

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by jojobas »

SequoiaHope wrote: post #122
HumblyTossed wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can people see the propaganda that happens in, say, North Korea, but fail to see what is happening in their own country? It boggles. It truly does.

It looks very different from the outside than it does from the inside. We are all subject to this.

If you think NK an US look the same from the outside check your body temp. Source: am outside both.

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by allthetime »

nickvec wrote: post #112

Sheesh... I should not have downloaded the White House app yesterday just to see how ludicrous it was. I just deleted it, though I'm sure a lot of my data has already been exfiltrated. Doesn't excessive tracking like this violate the App Store + Google Play's ToS?

Apple and Google’s App Stores? The companies whose CEOs were both standing at attention, present during Trump’s inauguration?

Rules for thee…

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by mulmen »

SequoiaHope wrote: post #122
HumblyTossed wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can people see the propaganda that happens in, say, North Korea, but fail to see what is happening in their own country? It boggles. It truly does.

It looks very different from the outside than it does from the inside. We are all subject to this.

No. We aren’t all subject to this. MAGA isn’t even logically consistent. You don’t even need fact checking to spot the bullshit.

And miss me with the inevitable both sides response.

Re: Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban

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Post by [deleted] »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #105
john_strinlai wrote: post #5

> This thing also has a "Text the President" button that auto-fills your message with "Greatest President Ever!" and then collects your name and phone number. when is the onion going to go bankrupt? it has to be soon, i imagine. no way it can compete with reality at this point. (the rest of the article is a bit too depressing for me to comment on at the moment, other than saying "wow, gross")

I remember when I was young seeing videos of North Korea, of audiences always giving rapt standing ovations and many people fake fainting, and I always thought "How dumb and stupid does everyone have to be to carry on this absurd, ridiculous charade." I don't wonder anymore.

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