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Can we get the European Union to mandate physical toggles and shutters for mic and camera, now that they're also pushing for user-replaceable batteries?
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Despite all the technology in the world the majority of police work is still plain old-fashioned knocking on doors and making phone calls. People will always voluntarily give up all the information in the world to be seen as good citizens. In your friend's case I'm willing to bet that they asked the sister for the names of his close friends and acquaintances and yours matched up.
or they just triangulated using his cell phone, it can be very accurate in urban settings
Last time I checked cell tower triangulation is accurate to between a few hundred and a few thousand feet. Cellular A-GPS can be good to within a few feet inside houses usually but often its within a few tens of feet in accuracy.
I regret getting a pixel, and not a fairphone with a removable battery With the current level of oversight on the police (police of police is a meme by now), and the level of cybersecurity at the government, everyone's phones will be activated within a few months. At least some government agent will have fun watching what ppl visit on the internet during their spare time, and can enable the camera to watch what they'…
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Do the cameras/microphones need to be controlled by the baseband? Naively they seem like they should be at a slightly higher level than the main radios, and should be controlled exclusively by the OS. I'm guessing from your comment there's some reason that's not the case though?
The microphone does need to be connected to the phone. Not so much the camera.
They could at least have the decency to just secretly do it and then pretend like they aren't, like our government does. This is why physical switches and removable batteries are the only way forward.
what is "our" government? this site is worldwide..
1. Most native English speakers are in the US, so the accidental assumption that someone is American is more often than not correct.
2. The internal voice that reads text to me has a generic male American accent.
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>ACAB I think my biggest pet peeve with this line of thinking is that it's not a reform slogan and it's not productive. If someone actually thinks that, then where do you go from there.
> If someone actually thinks that, then where do you go from there. People who believe in ACAB for the most part do not believe the current system can be reformed and are police abolitionists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_abolition_movement
All of the proposed alternatives are delusions and fantasy.
It's like jumping off a cliff because you think you can learn how to fly on the way down.
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Despite all the technology in the world the majority of police work is still plain old-fashioned knocking on doors and making phone calls. People will always voluntarily give up all the information in the world to be seen as good citizens. In your friend's case I'm willing to bet that they asked the sister for the names of his close friends and acquaintances and yours matched up.
I like this idea, very human. Social engineering basically. And at the end, they are not required to tell you their method.