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If you're being oppressed by a repressive regime, having a phone that damages the oppressor's infrastructure may not have a positive outcome for you, the indivi
by ISL 6y ago
If you're being oppressed by a repressive regime, having a phone that damages the oppressor's infrastructure may not have a positive outcome for you, the individual.
"Hey, your phone corrupted our 'lawful' intrusion system. That violates a long list of statutes. We're going to beat you with this wrench now, because you made our day worse, and then charge you with crimes against the state."
- celticninja 6y agoIf they will beat you with a wrench for that they will beat you regardless of what is in your phone. If they do find something they dont like you get hit with the wrench, if they don't find anything you must be hiding it so you get beat with the wrench. So now we are saying don't protect yourself because if you do that would imply you have something to hide,and are therefore guilty and deserving of the wrench beating.
- ISL 6y agoMy concern is really, "Signal has a beef with Cellebrite, and so some unsuspecting and innocent person gets hit with a wrench." It is a different game if Signal makes the sharding opt-in. If someone vacuums my phone and it turns out that my treatise about Little Bobby Tables [1] breaks the vacuum, that is fine by me. [1] https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/
- celticninja 6y agoWe should all have beef with cellebrite. Have you seen their customer list? If they make it opt-in then surely that is worse for the user. Then the oppressive regime can say "you deliberately did this thing".
- ISL 6y agoThe older I get, the more I find myself reticent to impose my 'shoulds' (I have many :) ) upon others. It is a complicated world.
- 8note 6y agoUsing signal is opt in, and using it is likely a reason to be hit by a wrench by these regimes anyways.