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I used to work for DRT, they make the "dirtbox" mentioned in the article. I would really encourage journalists to dig more into this company and their products.
by throwaway_drt2 6y ago
I used to work for DRT, they make the "dirtbox" mentioned in the article. I would really encourage journalists to dig more into this company and their products.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y ago> I would really encourage journalists to dig more into this company and their products. I guess journalists' disinterest in invasive surveillance is because reporting on it is harder, than reprinting the same 7 headlines as every other news org. It's been a bit better since Edward Snowden dragged news orgs away from authoritarian-friendly journalism and into the surveillance age. However, journalists still seem to do about the bare minimum, while their reporting gives LEO/Gov endless benefit of the doubt.
- ideals 6y agoYou could contact https://twitter.com/KenKlippenstein https://twitter.com/KenKlippenstein via Signal with any information you didn't see in the article which should be. He seems to be a journalist interested in related fields. No one is going to know unless the people who worked there reach out.
- thimkerbell 6y agoCan these do MITM attacks that inject content into what you are reading?
- thimkerbell 6y agoOr could they change the CSS so as to, say, have Amazon's website exhibit underhanded "dark pattern" behavior?
- ComputerGuru 6y agoNot when accessing https resources but the safe answer is yes otherwise. Unless your phone is infected, of course. Baseband isn't as confined as you think.