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submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Guess degoogled phones with custom OSes will soon be illegal then?

[-] mycus@kbin.social 30 points 1 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 27 points 1 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 17 points 1 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.

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