Yes. Then can triangulate. And with 5G (and later) using many more tower placed closer together the triangulation becomes much more accurate.
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Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users
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If they want to make this even more secure, don't just encrypt the push notifications, delay them for a random amount of time. It could be one second, it could be 1.7326 seconds. That way, they can't look at, "Person A sent a message. At almost the exact same time, person B received a message." This is how they analyze traffic patterns to see who is talking to who.
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You have to rely on the 3rd party developers, to make sure that the message payload is encrypted. But the metadata cannot be encrypted as the notification has to be delivered to the right phone.
Yes, it's important to stand up for communism and defend it against unfair slurs.
Metadata is interesting too: user A had no notifications, and user B received 327 notifications in the week prior to Jan,06 (US capitol riot). This is assuming the notfication text is encrypted = cannot be reported.
In principle, I agree with you.
In practice, you've got MAGA written all over this.
Disgusting.
Not surprising. Years ago key to this sort of stuff was offloading the scanning to another country. If you don't directly track your own citizens, get another country to report back to you on suspicious activity. US and Canada I believe had such an agreement monitoring phone calls if I recall correctly.
Very valid distinction. However, history shows that all Communist countries devolve into authoritarianism pretty quickly.
Uh, what? Yeah, it's the super duper extreme ultra MAGA people that advocate for this. The same people who typically wave Gadsden flags and get thrown into solitary confinement for it are the ones perpetrating and advocating for this. WTaF?!
Sometimes, when I *really* think about it, I think it's really bizarre we acquiesce to other humans' desire to rule over the rest of us.
But they are literally saying: we didn’t put it into the transparency report because we were told not to be transparent… so what is the point of such reports? They should have at least state in the report that there is a security related issue but we are not allowed to talk about it.
There is no reason to trust those transparency reports. The US and its allies have been conducting surveillance through tech companies the whole time and I see no reason for them to stop.
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Alert tracking is particularly helpful for apps like Signal and Telegram (In fact, if their encryption is as branded, then it's the ONLY help a government would have). Alerts aren't merely software architecture, they ride INFRASTRUCTURE, some of which includes open air transmission. There's simply no other way it can work. Any use of connected tech, whatsoever, is technically self doxxing.
Much like we should all assume that ALL governments are engaging in this sort of deep-cross referencing, governments assume that users of apps like signal/telegram generally (A.) misapprehend the tech, (B.) have something to hide, or (C.) are the sort of troublemakers doing something else nefarious. That's where government humint, sigint and osint lives.
Meh, MacProFCP's post reads like a basic, idealistic, principal of live and let live. It's TOTALLY never, ever happened that way, of course, but it's a noble principle.
This doesn't merit a dodgy MAGA label. Not even close. All such labels are contrived to loop in folks with short attention spans and anxiety they're desperate to aim at something. This kind of B.S. culture war labeling gets stretched out of shape along with Cancel, Woke and Lives Matter. They're thrown loosely at anything and everything, by folks in their bubbles, getting into a snit.
Folks who invent such branding, and folks who identify with it, are probably also cross referenced in for scrutiny by government humint, sigint and osint analysts, who now also have better AI tools, so good luck with your anonymity. And now they got me, too, for commenting. D'oh!
I honestly believe majority of the public are stupid when it comes to Privacy.
I guarantee this isn't the only method, it just happens to be the one the one that has has come out. Apple/Microsoft/Google Etc are all sharing our data with the Govt's behind the scenes and when eventually it comes out, we'll be told they've stopped doing it and they'll just carrying on & the cycle will keep repeating.
I guarantee this isn't the only method, it just happens to be the one the one that has has come out. Apple/Microsoft/Google Etc are all sharing our data with the Govt's behind the scenes and when eventually it comes out, we'll be told they've stopped doing it and they'll just carrying on & the cycle will keep repeating.
Let's not forget PRISM, that Apple has denied, but now we know that they can lie if the government ask for it...
I was not even aware that those notifications go through the servers of Apple or Google. Why should Apple or Google be involved if I get a notification from WhatsApp for a new message? Seems like a good reason to disable all push notifications.
