A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

    • sadreality
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      371 year ago

      Linux and encrypted messengers too lol

      If you don’t share dick pic you sent to your partner with the spooks… You go to the gulag labour camp until you redeem yourself.

    • mycus
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      301 year ago

      Wasn’t a guy convicted on france not long ago and the deciding factor the judge used was because he used linux? WTF is going on there?

    • @Toribor@corndog.uk
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      261 year ago

      Modern hardware is likely exploitable by state actors via firmware/hardware vulnerabilities that can’t be mitigated at a software level.

      • @piecat@lemmy.world
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        171 year ago

        Ya just look at the Intel management engine. Or the AMD platform security processor. Lot of spooky shit like secret op-codes.

        We need more open source HW.