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This is really stupid, surely? Even if it's not distributed via Google Play, Android will look at the package names of all installed apps. Therefore it's not difficult to find all the users with a subpoena to Google for these records.
Just imagine all the side channels they have access to if they get access to the cell network. Doesn't really matter if messages are encrypted on the wire if all phones in a certain area is backdoored through a trusted network.
It's not hard to locate a cell tower from a safe distance.
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Well sometimes you cannot tell...
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ben-franklin-really-said
And maybe it doesn't matter so much what Franklin was actually trying to say because the quotation means so much to us in terms of the tension between government power and individual liberties. But I do think it is worth remembering what he was actually trying to say because the actual context is much more sensitive to the problems of real governance than the flip quotation's use is, often.
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous...
There is very very little knowledge of Arabic language (with slang and such) in western intelligence agencies. As far as I now, there is less than 2,500 Americans are studying Arabic at colleges across the country right now. And 80% of them will be kicked out from country by "Trumps" as terrorists :-)
Alrawi can’t be downloaded from Google Play. Instead it must be installed from shady back alleys of the Internet. Well, there's your obvious solution. Get a copy of the APK, wrap it with some spyware, then propagate the bugged version. If ISIS won't host the source or can't provide an "official" outlet to grab it, you've got no way of knowing whether your version is legit or not. Who'd have thought the paradigms of s…
Alrawi can’t be downloaded from Google Play. Instead it must be installed from shady back alleys of the Internet. Well, there's your obvious solution. Get a copy of the APK, wrap it with some spyware, then propagate the bugged version. If ISIS won't host the source or can't provide an "official" outlet to grab it, you've got no way of knowing whether your version is legit or not. Who'd have thought the paradigms of s…
But that's government surveillance, and HN comments are supposed to say that it's always bad and much worse than ISIS, right?
At least the article does not mention "chat" at all. More like a news app for propaganda videos.
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Well sometimes you cannot tell...
Since when it's better to assume that everybody is guilty?
However, I am against the circlejerk that we don't need to change anything to battle the seemingly rising terrorism.