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Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’
(www.forbes.com)
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They don’t want people installing GrapheneOS on them.
But isn't that stupid tho. Like they should want their military officers to be using the most secure OS.
But then again, its funny to see them make stupid decisions.
They want to be able to perpetually spy on their military officers to keep them in line. Boot out any dissidents or anyone refusing to carry out illegal and genocidal orders.
Many fascist states like Stalin's USSR, Nazi Germany, North Korea, etc all have mass spy programs on the most powerful who aren't the leader.
It shows perpetual paranoia, which is expected as popular support for Israel has fucking collapsed in most Western countries. They know their time is limited.
I would be interested to know what definition of fascism you are using that includes the USSR and North Korea. Fascism is not the same thing as authoritarianism, if that's the definition you're going by.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism
I'm using the 14 points:
https://public.websites.umich.edu/~rsc/Editorials/fascism.html
Of which the USSR under Stalin, and North Korea in general fit damn near perfectly.
That's only true if they trust them. If the goal is to ensure they can keep track of dissidents then no.
It's a both-ways situation.
They allow only the Fisher-Price version of phones so less-than-power-users don't do something stupid.
They also allow only Fisher-Price so power users can't beat Celebrite as easily.
I wouldn’t assume any news about technology being used by IDF to be true in the first place. It could just as easily be misinformation.