[Newsbot]

Title: Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2021-07-19 05:59:48
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

But if you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about - right?

[Sunnyways]

An enemy of the state has to be doing something wrong.

[DrCaleb]

[Sunnyways]

This topic rears its head occasionally and then disappears again. We seem to have accepted that states and private companies can snoop as they please on us.

[Scape]

It rears but what he said is true, if they can hack one Iphone with the current build they can hack ALL phones because of the way phones are centralized and produced. So the NEXT hack wouldn't be 5 thousands phones but 5 million.

These tools are out of control and were created by state actors like Israel but are now in the hands of billionaires around the world with interests that do not align with our own.

[Sunnyways]

Until this year the British snoopers at GCHQ were allowed to hack all the computers and phones in an entire city under one warrant:

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252 ... s-unlawful

[DrCaleb]

Sunnyways Sunnyways:

This topic rears its head occasionally and then disappears again. We seem to have accepted that states and private companies can snoop as they please on us.

You may have accepted that. I have not.

[Public_Domain]

you have nothing to fear until you do something wrong

[Scape]

Don't forget the golden rule:

wrong being defined by he who has the gold.

[Scape]