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- technology@lemmy.world
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- technology@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54116540
India’s telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed
What makes you think they would allow such a thing to exist? The french government was apparently after GrapheneOS for its extreme security and privacy.
The EU is after chat software with its chat control bill. Governments only care about power. Once they have it, it will be abused.
They might ban it, but if its diy there’s little they can do to actually enforce it. People can 3d print guns or make bombs because you can’t control basic tech. Making a mobile device is harder because the carriers could try and detect unofficial access. But even having a device that’s only for wifi is better than allowing the goverrment to constantly monitor everything their citizens do and say online.
Oh they can enforce it just fine. Some guy in UK tried 3D printing a gun and saw what’s what, granted he called support which is stupid as hell, but everyone has a non-zero chance of slipping up. And once you do, I hope you don’t have unfinished business outside. Impracticality of enforcement only becomes an issue if it’s ridiculously widespread, which this is not.
Given that your phone will see far more active use and will have to be connected to some kind of network, the chances of it getting detected and landing you in trouble is quite high. You have a better chance with getting out of there if possible or getting rid of your smartphone if not.
On a side tangen I don’t buy into the “anyone can build a gun” argument anyway. You have to make a frame, barrel, blackpowder, cast lead… it’s a long hard process that will result in an underpowered / impractical gun or most likely both, something 99% of people won’t bother ever bother with due to the sheer friction involved if nothing else. That argument holds weight with knives (sharp stuff in general), sheperd’s slings, maybe a brass knuckle even but not really with guns.
Bullets in america are not tracked, logged, or otherwise managed in any way by the american government. They don’t matter for making a gun because literally anyone can walk up to their local pawn shop and get some without any identity checks or other hassle.
Guns made by 3d printers are kinda shitty, in the exact same way that jellyfin is kinda shitty compared to Netflix. They both do the job, but one just takes more time and effort to get running.
Making a untracked 3d-printed glock is entirely doable by the average Joe.
This is absolutely not a subject I know about in detail, but I feel like there are credible reports of the printed guns.
And I agree that if the government wanted to absolutely control all internet access and devices they could make it very hard for anyone to use it without going outside their supervision. But “banning all Linux devices” is quiet a different level of authoritarianism than “force android producers to install government software”.
You could go the steganographic way, or hide things by other means.
The sim card that needs an address is the first entry point into your phone, wifi over IP not so much, for example.