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France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone

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Re: France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone

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px43 wrote: post #58
rythmshifter wrote: post #17

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Saying all cops are anything is exactly the same thing as saying all blacks are thieves, all Jews are greedy, or any of the other blanket statements that can never apply to any large group of people. It’s disgusting.

It's okay to dislike people for the bad things that they do. It's not okay to dislike people for the circumstances they were born into. Every cop, at least in the US, made the conscious decision to join a broken system where they would be rewarded for greed and corruption, and be allowed to dehumanize any group they decide they don't like. People who sign up to be cops who try to change any of this end up not being c…

How would you feel about a cop that signed up because they wanted to do better? Should they just not even try? How would things ever get better?

Re: France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone

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hiatus wrote: post #52
lagolinguini wrote: post #35

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No it’s not the same. One of them is an institution conceived through organisation of people, laws, traditions and customs, the existence and membership of which is a choice. The other categories are associations made by accident of birth. I don’t have a horse in the race but it is important to understand that those situations are not the same. When people say stuff like ACAB they are free to criticise the existence…

> The other categories are associations made by accident of birth. Just because someone says you are a Christian because you were baptized or whatever doesn't make it so. Religion is just as much a choice as an occupation.

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Re: France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone

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JumpCrisscross wrote: post #41
andy_ppp wrote: post #39

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My experience with the police has been universally terrible. They think they are above the law and trusting them to do the right thing or “tell the truth and you’ll be fine” is extremely bad advice. Get a lawyer and be very careful around these people is my more nuanced take on them. Edit: I commented before you made your answer more nuanced so I’ve changed mine too.

> You probably don’t have much experience with the police, would be my guess It's a bad guess. EDIT: Police in America have a "thin blue line" problem of reflexively defending peers' mistakes. Their cultures look disturbingly similar to gangs, though I don't think that's intentional--they're better described as fraternities with guns. (Which also describes gangs. Convergence.) That said, new recruits aren't corrupt.…

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Re: France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone

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Post by PartiallyTyped »

knaik94 wrote: post #59

From an opsec standpoint, would leaving the phone in airplane mode and turning off location services effectively block access to the phone? From my understanding airplane mode disables the sim, wifi, gps, and bluetooth entirely, but it's possible to re-enable wifi, gps, and bluetooth. It's something I got into the habit of doing because my phone searching for 4g cellular data ate into my battery.

Fairly certain that it doesn’t. As long as the switch is not physical, a backdoor / forcing vendor compliance is possible

Re: France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone

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Post by PartiallyTyped »

dheera wrote: post #90
knaik94 wrote: post #59

From an opsec standpoint, would leaving the phone in airplane mode and turning off location services effectively block access to the phone? From my understanding airplane mode disables the sim, wifi, gps, and bluetooth entirely, but it's possible to re-enable wifi, gps, and bluetooth. It's something I got into the habit of doing because my phone searching for 4g cellular data ate into my battery.

For the camera your best bet is to just put a physical cover. There are a lot of sliding adhesive ones you can buy online that are convenient. I stick them on laptops as well, especially work-issued laptops. For the microphone ... ideally build and install LineageOS yourself on an Android device. Don't trust iOS or Google's official Android builds, they have closed source software that may have France-specific backdo…

Or CalyxOS.

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