2w ago

A compulsory mandated app installed on every Indian citizen's new phone

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/if-you-don-t-want-jyotiraditya-scindia-says-sanchar-saathi-app-is-optional-amid-strong-opposition-protests-11764659707854.html

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Crazy this is a thing actually being rolled out and it hasn't hit world headlines.
Europe, USA and other countries are not far behind this initiative once they (governments) see how even more successful it is for collecting and sorting data to control citizens.
Time to go to GrapheneOS folks.
- Just wait until they fine you for noncompliance
  
  No phone it is then...
  
  In the dwindling amount of phones that will allow you to install GOS on them?
  
  Nah, they're mostly just going to endlessly harass you for it and wait for you to bribe them.
  They will randomly send dacoits in uniform to beat you up and jail you and make it harder for you to earn a living until they get their ~~birthright~~ bribes.
  
  Use a tablet with a MiFi router. The hostile network starts there.
  
  ~~fine~~ imprison
  FTFY
- Time to go to GrapheneOS folks
  I mean, it has been, for a long time, but this is not why. According to the article you can simply uninstall the app.
  
  Bet you are going to have the app installed and scanned for every government service you want to use (including leaving the country).
- I've read about it in three different places this morning, I don't live in India. I thi I it's hit "world headlines"
- BBC had an article this morning. I follow them for a different perspective on North American news.
- Can't speak for Europe but the USA already has this, only instead of a playstore app it's a collection of backdoors and hacking tools, and they're installed without our knowledge or consent by military intelligence institutions.
  
  Yes I watched a few videos about the NSA’s hacker group, TAO, and how they exploited backdoors and zero day exploits like crazy but without our knowledge. Went unknown for some 15 years til Snowden blew the whistle.
  Scary stuff man.
- It absolutely hit world headlines way before you commented... I had seen it multiple times from several sources before this thread was made. From local (I'm Swedish) news, global news (grounded and kagi news), youtube and mastodon (links to MSM articles about it).

Lol when this inevitably get backdoored/exploited, it's gonna be glorious
- Oh it probably already is just look up the test run they did with their covid app

Just saw and ranted about this. I HATE THIS FUCKING FASCIST GOVERNMENT WITH EVERY FIBER OF BY BEING!!!!!!!!!!!!
- at this pace you are going to be sent to a concentration camp soon

I lowkey expect every modern device to be compromised (unless you're running custom roms). Whether it's Pegasus or something else. Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether.
- Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether
  Even if you can't, minimizing smartphone use, uptime and carrying mitigates some of the risk
- Only permanent solution is to stop using smartphones altogether.
  Just make sure your pagers are not backdoored with Semtex either.
- If you think every phone has some sort of IME, installing a custom ROM means nothing.
  
  A phone's baseband (modem) runs its own proprietary firmware with full RAM access.

They cannot get rid of the caste system but can successfully surveil 90% of the population
- The caste system ended in 1947. We know the laws there.
  The only thing holding their people back is the Reservation system.
  
  the same way racism ended in 1964?
  
  Bruh are you pretending to be a BJP Devotee

India saw Britain and said "I'm not going to let my former colonisers out do me."

This is just another crowdstrike incident in the making: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_outages

Reuters cited sources to report that US tech giant Apple plans not to comply with the mandate and will convey the same to New Delhi

How do the corporations feel about this when they have workers in India?

Bring back dumb phones!
- You can get a Nokia flip phone on Amazon for under $100. Before all the tariff BS it was more like $60. My daughter has been using one exclusively for about six months.

The modified (Modi-fied?) offer of it now being optional is ridiculous. Keep protesting the policy my brothers and sisters.

Does the iOS one get this sweeping access to everything as well (which would require Apple to specifically give it entitlements)?
- Reuters cited sources to report that US tech giant Apple plans not to comply with the mandate and will convey the same to New Delhi.

Cool..how can I get it?
They too should suffer my endless search history for obscurities. I want them to download all of my USB storage of virus infected malware. I will sit idly and tap my fingertips against each other while my SMS messages corrupt their society from within.

Looks like the backlash has made them reassure us that it IS OPTIONAL for now...
- They turned down the heat slightly because the frogs noticed the boiling.

I use Custom Rom(LineageOS)

https://www.amazon.com/Nokia-3310-3G-Unlocked-T-Mobile/dp/B075FL4H89
Sorry how to install it exactly?
- Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.

Could they install it in a sandbox quarantined away from the rest of the stuff on their phones?
- Probably, but until they see at least 20 pictures of your 5 year old in a bikini, they'll just beat you.

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