Oddbean new post about login | logout These backdoors exist at the firmware level on all iOS, Android, and Windows devices. Privacy is dead.
you think de-googled devices running Grapheme OS have this same problem?
Not the same problem entirely, the different layers have to work together to make it easy and automated. But I wouldn't rule out some undocumented features that the real pros could use manually if they wanted to. Putin uses a typewriter, they say. Because he's seen first hand what the best of the best can do.
Correct.. no matter how you try to encode logical constraints to achieve security in software, no amount of logic can prevent the exploitation of logic.
Then why do they need to back door or shut down telegram dude
Exactly what I said in my post above. Durov made it HARD to get Telegram user data. It was easier and cheaper to take him hostage than to steal the user data in bulk. I don't doubt ECHELON can get root access if they want, via hardware trojans. But that's tedious work plus mad skillz.
No point trying to steal Nostr data, since it's all public or encrypted and the npubs hold their own encryption keys. At the most, you could shut down a machine, but there are a gazillion other machines, so good luck with that. His strategic error was in trying to hide data in storage.
Same idea as the people trying to scrape Twitter data. 🤣 On Nostr, you just setup a relay and collect whatever data you can get and read whatever you can read. The idea that you should hide data sources that the public or the operator can see is an antipattern.
It's not about scraping data.. its about actually controlling what people can and cannot say.. right now nostr is niche and doesn't represent a significant threat. Telegram and X are actually messing things up for the thought police
Everyone wants to play God holding the keys themselves. Give the keys to the people and suddenly that target on your back disappears.
It's not hard to get the data. The problem is they have no content moderation control authority. They want control over what you can say. They already have the means to spy on you. With the narrative falling further and further out of their control with apps like X spying isn't enough, they need pre-Elon twitter 1.0 levels of cooperation from these apps to shut down dissenting voices
They don't need to back door it. Being able to spy on your phone doesn't stop you from still uploading content and saying what you want. They content moderation authority and control over the free speech apps.