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 My phone just started blaring a super loud siren-like noise from nowhere.... 

It was a test of the Italian emergency broadcast system. 

I had no idea that they had to power to push a message with a max volume alarm to my phone (it was on silent). 

WTF!? 🤬 
 Oh yeah I had this test alarm last week, while driving, that was really uncomfortable! 
 Crazy e! There are a config in the phone to desactivate it, but if persist you can use https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater 
 All over Europe they have the power to do so. They also can open your microphone and listen to you. Ok, I guess you are not a big fish! 
It is very interesting what they can do. 
A German journalist told me once that Germany blocked his passport and when he got out of the airplane, he got arrested and deported. 
I think they can do this with money also. Germany blamed themselves, due to sunctions against Russia, they made the Euros in Russia invalid. I don't understand how that should work.  
 Seriously. Do you have a reference to the law that says they can turn on the mic?  
 Loi sécurité globale qui n'est que la dernière depuis la vague des attentats, en plus de la quête à l'argent sale tel qu'ils le nomment, je suis outrée de plus, rien qu'en usant de votre carte de sécurité sociale ou bancaire ils ont accès à tous... Tant de lois qui craignent l... Loi influenceur n'existe qu'ici Darmanin était et est  un excellent soldat de  son ancienne fonction et celle-ci il a mis en œuvre tous les mots de notre cher Président... Pourtant ce sont les citoyens qui font fonctionner ce système  unique contributif et non contributif le dernier plan d'actions prévue est la Grande Sécurité Sociale Globale qui va rendre ce pays tel qu'au Royaume-Uni dans un contexte où les pays en Europe sont endettés sauf la Norvège  
 They can only turn it on with a Court order. So there must be a case against you and a judge decides to listen to you to get evidence. They are not allowed to listen randomly into your mic. 
For something like that they have other technologies... 
The other is under the antiterrorism laws. 
Then they can also open your mic, but it always needs a judge to sign it. 
The thing they always do is recording calls and reading emails and stuff. But here it is not allowed to be a human, it is a computer. On special words it makes an alarm and they have to listen to it... I don't know the actual trigger words tho. 
I think to use that against you, they also need a judge to allow it.  
 Exception pour les  Pays-Bas, une partie de la Belgique, l'Allemagne et les pays du Nord mais la pandémie a tout foutu en l'air..en plus des fonds prêtés durant cettee période et les divers prêts obscurs ou de la BCE à des fins de relances en même temps ils ont lancé le grand chantier sur la santé en mutualisant toutes nos données selon eux c'est pour des raisons d'amélioration en recherche médicale... Une foutaise la santé est et demeurera l'affaire du siècle ou des siècles à venir avec de gros mastodontes de l'industrie pharmaceutique, Les comités d'éthique médicale  et' de chercheurs doivent être tous déçus  
 I heard the U.S. is planning something similar - a test - next month, but don't remember where I saw it.  
 wtf 
 Were you using penne when you should've been using linguine?? 
 Same happened in Turkey on my Android 
 Settings>safety&emergency->wireless emergency alerts-> (OFF) 
 I don't have these settings on iOS.  
 Ah sorry, that's android 
 For those wondering – you can turn this off on iOS from the very bottom of the Notification settings. 

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102516 
 Bon Jour JeffG merci d'être là 🙏💜 
 I'm the privileged ones https://i.nostrimg.com/b2453c813e982fbd16b020148051af027df080131992a258f0707d2521e2d703/file.jpeg  
 Yeah i dont see anything about it either. 

Another #ad for android tho 
 Ne vous prenez pas la tête pour le système d'alertes configurez et sécurisez vos données et désactivez votre geolocation cependant obligatoire pour l'état américain  pour la protection et location de ses citoyens en tant de dangers ou tous risques. Mais ils ont tous eu tort pour la pandémie. De plus ils nous ont tous enfermés d'office ce qui va à l'encontre de nos droits  
 Would love more info on how this is done and stone walling them 
 HK implemented this on November 26th 2020.
 
 wtf how? iOS or mandated all phones? 
 Wait, you have never heard about cell broadcasting? 
 Would love to know if that also happened on graphene os phones.. 
 It's like i have a virus in the phone 🙂 
 Configurer et lisez toutes conditions d'utilisations malgré les règles rgdp mica dsa la CNIL (78) ne peut guère continuer à être notre Défenseur. En ce moment tous les grands de la Tech ex GAFAM changent leurs conditions d'octobre à décembre... A vous de choisir. Bonne journée  
 Use grapheneOS, disable this stuff - problem solved 🤙😁 
 While it can be annoying, I'd prefer having an alarm on my phone to drowning in the floods 😋 
 I quickly pressed "ok" to stop the siren and so I was unable to read the message. Good, and safe, UX... 
 On android nothing happened 
 It seems like phones are a single point of failure when it comes to sovereignty. 

Open source phone manufacturing where creation of the devices can be decentralized enough to avoid any single or few companies from being targeted? 

Or lowering the cost of production to make them so cheap you can use disposable phones and cycle them out if one becomes compromised or blocked? 

@jack might be working on this already. 

But I think about this every time I walk by a homeless person and I want to give them bitcoin. What if there was a cheap smart phone I can hand them with bitcoin already on it and teach them how to use real money. 
 phones have had these sorts of emergency broadcast things for ages, I'm honestly surprised you haven't encountered it before. Either way, it's easy to dismiss and only happens on occasions (usually when there's actually an emergency you'd care about) 
 They tested this on us in the UK last year..or maybe this year, I can't recall - luckily we were warned and could turn our phones off or disable the alerts in time