• xenomor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    3 months ago

    Sweet. I appreciate that their reaction has Streisand-effected this app into my awareness.

    • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
      73·
      3 months ago

      I love the quote about how it is putting federal agents in danger…and I sort of think that they are doing that themselves.

      • Mamdani_Da_Savior@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        3 months ago

        Good, those agents are playing a dangerous game and you should know if you play with fire your going get burned. Its a matter of time before they try to kidnap the wrong person, and that person decides its better to die in America then it is to go to a camp then deported.

      • catty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        which is great for necessitating the need to give absolute militant power to police forces. It’s like… the PR of him having a ‘meltdown’ is for a reason or something.

          • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Probably lots of people in red states. Farmers for instance, people who generally buy the Republican bullshit, but may personally rely heavily on immigrant workers. ICE puts them in a really tough position.

            • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              I have experienced some recent schadenfreude with farmers who no longer have workers to harvest because ICE scared them away.

          • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            3 months ago

            You’ve made a potential error in underestimating just how horrible some peoples’ lives are and how filled with hatred they are over that fact. This is really what drives so much of politics in the world–disgruntled people with no future who choose to hate others who have nothing to do with it.

            • Proud Cascadian@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              You’ve made a potential error in underestimating just how horrible some peoples’ lives are and how filled with hatred they are over that fact.

              What fact? People’s lives are horrible BECAUSE of ICE. They’re so horrible that I considered that nobody would be “on the fence” because either you drank the Fear-Of-Crime Kool-Aid or you are horrified at what ICE agents are doing to children and poor people. The entire reason there are people who don’t think ICE needs to be abolished right now is because Fox News and other right-wing grifters have pumped out propaganda making it look like there is a “crime wave” like it’s the Reagan Era, and people living in the Suburbs not knowing what the outside world is like. Not only do they choose to portray a crime wave, they have to do it, because otherwise people would see their president as the power-hungry maniac he is rather than a savior of order. No riot is actually making people miserable, only the police-reported, sensationalist coverage of protests.

              This is really what drives so much of politics in the world–disgruntled people with no future who choose to hate others who have nothing to do with it.

              That’s just the American Suburbs. I hope American states can secede to change this. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, there is a high-speed rail being built. This is not driven by disgruntled people, people with no future, or people who choose not to hate others who have nothing to do with it. Neither is Iran defending itself from an imperialist regime, nor Australia having their left-wing Labour party completely outdo the right-wing Liberal party. America is the villain here.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    110·
    3 months ago

    “[the app] basically paints a target on federal law enforcement officers’ backs”

    When it comes to painting targets on backs, better them then innocent civilians.

  • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    805·
    3 months ago

    Was curious so Iooked up the app’s site.

    Apparently the devs claim they can’t release it on Android because “There’s no way to be anonymous on the play store”, but it’s even more impossible to be anonymous on the platform they’ve released. That’s how you know the developer is incredibly stupid and/or shady as hell- because they’ve never even heard of Fdroid?

    Makes me think the app is a troll/trojan horse (not as in infection, trojan horse as in it has alterior motives)

    The Drumpf crew “losing it” over the app just makes it more questionable. They love to create a firestorm so people talk about the thing “they definitely don’t want you to use!!” to get people to do things…

      • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        Interesting, especially with GrapheneOS people shooting it down immediately to call them out on their baloney.

      • poopkins@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        Push notifications though GMS don’t use the device ID; they use a generated GCM registration ID that occasionally rotates. Who knows what Google uses internally to associate GCM reg IDs to users, but to overly state that it uses device IDs is simply not correct.

        I’m not suggesting push notifications are inherently secure because it’s impossible to make that determination from the outside. But their assessment is incorrect and the same privacy concerns apply to Apple.

      • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Thanks. Remember to always question everything. Especially when that -something- sounds like BS.

  • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    70·
    3 months ago

    Anyone have a link to the app/website? I’d like to follow some among honing my horn and warning folks.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    641·
    3 months ago

    Shouldn’t be an app. It should be a site accessible using vpn and private browsing with an appropriate browser. Nobody should have to worry about the Stasi finding the app on their phone regardless of the situation.

    • TFO Winder@lemmy.mlEnglish
      19·
      3 months ago

      While this is true, most people are not so tech savvy, maybe giving an option to mask app Icon to user choice can help it hide better.

      • Potatar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        3 months ago

        going to a website (not tech savvy enough for this) vs going to the settings on an app and select a new icon (yay anyone can do it)

    • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      3 months ago

      It sounds like a honeypot to me. But I would be happy to be proven wrong.

      Edit: and it’s gone?

  • rekabis@lemmy.caEnglish
    361·
    3 months ago

    I love how the Streisand Effect works. They just made this app the hottest thing out there.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
      731·
      3 months ago

      It’s closed source, and the build and publishing pipeline isn’t transparent.

      For me that makes this no different than a potential ICE honey pot

      • catty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        3 months ago

        which is exactly what this whole ‘meltdown’ frame for the pr hints at. republicans know how to use publicity stunts to get what they want.

      • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        Haven’t followed it much (EU), can you elaborate who did what and what can be done potentially?

        • Spice Hoarder@lemmy.zipEnglish
          31·
          3 months ago

          Haven’t followed it much

          Oh lord, where do I even start? It’s an entire shit show. And not the usual political shit show. A really scary one that’s truly heartbreaking. I don’t even really feel safe talking about it

  • hera@feddit.ukEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    Seems like the kind of thing a defederated system would be good for…