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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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dandanua wrote: post #167
jrmg wrote: post #123

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…

The current administration has created a narrative that everything they do is good, while anything their opponents do is bad. Facts or meaning do not matter any more. I honestly don't understand how the USA has become this. This won't end well.

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

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Post by VorpalWay »

herbst wrote: post #177
andreygrehov wrote: post #170

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The apps have nothing to do with the current administration. All these permissions were already in place before the current administration. It’s easy to verify this by looking at previous versions of the apps. HN has created a narrative that everything the current administration does is bad.

To be fair that's the exact narrative European media seems to draw. Not sure how you could see anything else in this shitshow

As an European, the political situation in US has never seemed reasonable to me, and been on a mostly downhill slope for a long time. It has certainly gotten way way worse with the current administration though.

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

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Post by HackerThemAll »

So no, thank you USA. I'm not going to visit you. I have all I need in this our European "socialism" as many Americans like to call it. I'm not assumed to be a criminal, and governments aren't building databases of all my steps and activities, and I have a great healthcare.

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

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Post by cyberax »

wat10000 wrote: post #121
malfist wrote: post #6

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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.

To be fair, if I had $999 million, it'd be bugging me all the time until I got to $1B.

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

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Post by yard2010 »

dandanua wrote: post #167
jrmg wrote: post #123

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…

The current administration has created a narrative that everything they do is good, while anything their opponents do is bad. Facts or meaning do not matter any more. I honestly don't understand how the USA has become this. This won't end well.

Tbf living throughout the past 20 years never have I ever get this feeling that the US is gonna "end well"

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

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Post by AlecSchueler »

hamstergene wrote: post #146
HumblyTossed wrote: post #110

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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.

A simple answer is that they see neither. What they think they see is actually a short snapshot of North Korean life with a red circle, a red arrow and a red caption text that says "North Korean propaganda here!!! -->", carefully drawn by their local propaganda. Sanity check: I present you a country X, whose language you don't speak, and whose news you don't read day to day. I show you their politician saying somethi…

Seems reasonable but it's not as if no one speaks Korean outside North Korea to verify what's being said.

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

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Post by AlecSchueler »

jazz9k wrote: post #149
literalAardvark wrote: post #79

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I think they are, and strongly. The drive to achieve that level of success often comes from weaponized poor self esteem. Well adjusted individuals just chill out after a few million and work on whatever is fun/important for them. Only rarely does this also happen to be something that can take you from 10M to 1B. (and if it can it would take a lot of work you can't be bothered to do unless it's some core value like he…

"The drive to achieve that level of success often comes from weaponized poor self esteem." This sounds like all of the cope I continue to hear about successful people. Very successful people MUST have something wrong with them...

You don't think someone who makes 10 million and then chills out to work on passion projects is very successful?

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

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Post by sfn42 »

nostrademons wrote: post #92
conception wrote: post #62

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Aaron Swartz had a good take on this - http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/handwritingwall

I remember wrestling with this in my therapist's office when Aaron died. I had known him tangentially - we hung out in the same IRC channels, and had several mutual friends in the Cambridge/Somerville techie crowd that he would hang out in person with. As a college student and young adult I had always envied his fame, his intelligence, his money (post-Reddit acquisition), and the strength of his convictions. And yet,…

There's also twitch viewers who love to give all their money to people at wealth level x + 10-100

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

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Post by renewiltord »

leptons wrote: post #176
renewiltord wrote: post #165

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Sure, and this 70% of Americans bullshit is propaganda by that measure. It is frequently trotted out on HN and is met with enthusiastic belief despite being total ass pull. There are US Senators pushing this propaganda and people enthusiastically agreeing.

What percentage of Americans do you think live paycheck to paycheck?

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

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Post by zimpenfish »

Den_VR wrote: post #100
dnautics wrote: post #90

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can you verify that the UNESCO plan would have ended world hunger?

It was a 6.6 billion dollar plan to alleviate famine in 43 countries for one year, so, no.

On the other hand, it would have alleviated famine in 43 countries for one year and if your response to that is "but that's not ending world hunger and I will not do it", you really need a long hard look at yourself.

But then again, Musk is going to turn out to be one of the great mass killers of world history with his destruction of USAID. Why would he spoil that by helping some folks?

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