How we built the new Find My Device network with user security and privacy in mind
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Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security and Privacy Keeping people safe and their data secure and private is a t...

I saw this on infinity for Reddit earlier, I don’t know if there’s a workaround for this or not.

    • Syn_Attck@lemmy.today
      6·
      11 months ago

      Friendly reminder that Bluetooth has a larger network stack than Wi-Fi. Much more code, much larger available attack base. There have been many numerous Bluetooth vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution or theft of files.

      This is truly becoming a surveillance state, in no way that can be debated. That want to be able to access everyone’s innermost thoughts (texts, notes, recordings, calendars, contacts, photos, you get it) without any chance of someone being able to protect against it.

      Reminder that Google was the 2nd or 3rd company to commit to NSA’s PRISM program of feeding American’s data for future analysis.

      • shneancy@lemmy.world
        0·
        11 months ago

        maybe humanity shouldn’t have written so many dystopian cyberpunk books and pieces of media, gave us all the wrong ideas :|

        • melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
          1·
          11 months ago

          Maybe we shouldn’t have handed our fucking lives over to corporations

          Maybe they’re not ours til every single corpo is dead, and you should fight like the fucking dead to make this happen?

          I dunno.

    • LWD@lemm.ee
      2·
      11 months ago

      “Privacy Sandbox” is just Google-controlled surveillance carried out with your phone/PC as the primary data provider. We’ve reached maximum perversion of the English language.

    • Murdoc@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      11 months ago

      Straight up 1984 Newspeak, where the Ministry of Truth is really concerned with lies, the Ministry of Peace is concerned with war, the Ministry of Love is concerned with torture, and the Ministry of Plenty is concerned with starvation.