That depends whether the govt considers if you own your phone or not. In the latter case, they’d see it as breaking the law. Welcome to the renter culture worldwide
Mikina@programming.dev
on 02 Nov 19:40
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The thread in question is about smear campaigns, from a brief skim I did not see any mention about them actually seizing Pixel phones? What did I miss?
MidnightMarauder@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 02 Nov 19:52
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This campaign is mainly focussed on drugs related crime syndicates, having a graphene phone is seen as criminating evidence. Dutch police has a very competent cybercrime unit, a few years back they cracked a secure “pgp phone” network which exposed multiple drug syndicates and led to a large amount of convictions.
That said, stopping crime is always used as an excuses for states to crack down on privacy and other human rights. Its a slippery slope.
Guadin@k.fe.derate.me
on 02 Nov 20:25
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This is just normal reporting. A lot of people think this is state-sponsored but it's just incompetence. Everybody with deep knowledge about a specific subject knows journalists never report objectively. They always have their readers in mind (what resonates, what do they want to hear) and also have their own biasses. There is a lot of wrong reporting on all media (fake news is not reserved for mainstream media).
sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today
on 03 Nov 05:18
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Where’s the article? I see a title and 26 comments
Fleppensteijn@sh.itjust.works
on 03 Nov 10:21
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Police probably hacked phones bought through a criminal reseller, knew their location, then came to look for those phones. The title is a bit clickbaity, they’re not just coming after regular people.
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I’ve never really considered grapheneos. But if this many governments hate it, it’s probably pretty good.
I don’t understand what legal grounds they have to seize the phones. Just installing a different rom shouldn’t be enough.
That depends whether the govt considers if you own your phone or not. In the latter case, they’d see it as breaking the law. Welcome to the renter culture worldwide
The thread in question is about smear campaigns, from a brief skim I did not see any mention about them actually seizing Pixel phones? What did I miss?
This campaign is mainly focussed on drugs related crime syndicates, having a graphene phone is seen as criminating evidence. Dutch police has a very competent cybercrime unit, a few years back they cracked a secure “pgp phone” network which exposed multiple drug syndicates and led to a large amount of convictions.
That said, stopping crime is always used as an excuses for states to crack down on privacy and other human rights. Its a slippery slope.
This is just normal reporting. A lot of people think this is state-sponsored but it's just incompetence. Everybody with deep knowledge about a specific subject knows journalists never report objectively. They always have their readers in mind (what resonates, what do they want to hear) and also have their own biasses. There is a lot of wrong reporting on all media (fake news is not reserved for mainstream media).
Where’s the article? I see a title and 26 comments
Here’s another article crimesite.nl/grote-politie-actie-tegen-google-pix…
Police probably hacked phones bought through a criminal reseller, knew their location, then came to look for those phones. The title is a bit clickbaity, they’re not just coming after regular people.
Resellers, I am fine with criminals being caught by good police work. Flash it yourself and you can trust it.