India saw Britain and said “I’m not going to let my former colonisers out do me.”
I lowkey expect every modern device to be compromised (unless you’re running custom roms). Whether it’s Pegasus or something else. Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether.
If you think every phone has some sort of IME, installing a custom ROM means nothing.
A phone’s baseband (modem) runs its own proprietary firmware with full RAM access.
This doesn’t make sense to me.
Why do they even need it to be that way?Compartmentalisations was one of the basic points in system design methodology that I thought (because I read it somewhere) smartphones would also be built upon. So why compromise the whole thing to a supply chain attack?
In exchange for giant purchase orders from the government. Qualcomm etc are simply corrupt.
Why do they even need it to be that way?
so that they can surveil you
That part, I already understand.
But you needed to have some sort of excuse for such things back when smartphones were new.
Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether.
Just make sure your pagers are not backdoored with Semtex either.
Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether
Even if you can’t, minimizing smartphone use, uptime and carrying mitigates some of the risk
Does the iOS one get this sweeping access to everything as well (which would require Apple to specifically give it entitlements)?
Reuters cited sources to report that US tech giant Apple plans not to comply with the mandate and will convey the same to New Delhi.
Lol when this inevitably get backdoored/exploited, it’s gonna be glorious
Oh it probably already is just look up the test run they did with their covid app
Could they install it in a sandbox quarantined away from the rest of the stuff on their phones?
Probably, but until they see at least 20 pictures of your 5 year old in a bikini, they’ll just beat you.
Bring back dumb phones!
You can get a Nokia flip phone on Amazon for under $100. Before all the tariff BS it was more like $60. My daughter has been using one exclusively for about six months.
This is just another crowdstrike incident in the making: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_outages
They cannot get rid of the caste system but can successfully surveil 90% of the population
The caste system ended in 1947. We know the laws there.
The only thing holding their people back is the Reservation system.
the same way racism ended in 1964?
In 2015, my Indian coworker in the US sat on a different table with another team on a company lunch, because my Indian boss wouldn’t talk to him because he comes from a lower caste.
Bruh are you pretending to be a BJP Devotee
Cool…how can I get it?
They too should suffer my endless search history for obscurities. I want them to download all of my USB storage of virus infected malware. I will sit idly and tap my fingertips against each other while my SMS messages corrupt their society from within.
Just saw and ranted about this. I HATE THIS FUCKING FASCIST GOVERNMENT WITH EVERY FIBER OF BY BEING!!!
at this pace you are going to be sent to a concentration camp soon
https://www.amazon.com/Nokia-3310-3G-Unlocked-T-Mobile/dp/B075FL4H89
Sorry how to install it exactly?
I use Custom Rom(LineageOS)
How do the corporations feel about this when they have workers in India?
Reuters cited sources to report that US tech giant Apple plans not to comply with the mandate and will convey the same to New Delhi
The modified (Modi-fied?) offer of it now being optional is ridiculous. Keep protesting the policy my brothers and sisters.
