2 monthsAn app that could be a website and wants a huge intrusive set of permissions? So just like every corporate social media thing ever.
I’m sorry, but it controls vibration??? Does it make your phone into a sex toy!?
It was a feature specifically requested by Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski for their government airplane sexy times. And the developer forgot to remove it.
- dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish2 months
Legitimate criticism aside, I found it funny they underlined “receive data from internet” among the other scary permissions.
That’s the one thing a news app presumably should be doing
“What are we? China?”
Why do they pretend they didn’t create mass surveillance and data collection.
- bagsy@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
yep, there is ZERO chance i’m installing trumps digital herpes on my phone.
- backalleycoyote@lemmy.todayEnglish2 months
Trump has never been much for requiring consent, especially when spreading herpes.
- 2 months
Yup, they somehow managed to bundle obvious spyware and bold-faced propaganda into a single app, and somehow plenty of people seem okay with that.
- vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish2 months
I honestly have stopped caring about this particular kind of spyware. Too obvious to be a really important part of life’s fabric. More interested in easter eggs that persist over decades and nobody sees them because their essence is architectural. And exists from conception of a system till its death.
Some thoughts:
- Its good to have an easily-acessible resource for official govt info
- However, The White House already has publicly accessible RSS feeds. This does seem to go beyond that with videos and live streams though.
- This will most certainly be used to spread and give credence to propaganda
- Given the aptitude of this admin, I give it about a month before its hacked and used to spread false information.
- __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish2 months
- No need for a hacker there, it will have false information from the start
- 2 months
We must consider the possibility it is hacked to spread true information too
- ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish2 months
Someone is going to link their Signal chat to the app, aren’t they…
- CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Honestly? I would expect hackers to actually spread the truth here for once.
- DoubleDongle@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Decent chance that when it is hacked, the hackers will actually use it to spread true information.
- 2 months
I wonder if this somehow gets around the requirement that all presidential communication to the public needs to be recorded.
- EpicMuch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 months
What’s fucking asshole ad network is Newsweek using where their auto play video ads have audio enabled? Closed that tab damn quick
- CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish2 months
Reminds me of that time when Instagram went went full short brainrot where sound was always re-enabled or how the Youtube app started it last week.
- kyub@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish2 months
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/gov.whitehouse.app/latest/
As usual: this can be interpteted as Malware. That said, many apps are like this these days: full of trackers and way too many permissions. Most people never know or care.
Mildly interesting: one of.the trackers seems to be related to Huawei.
EDIT: Someone decompiled and analyzed the app in detail: https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
“this meeting could have been an email” --> “this app could have been a website”
LOL, this is what they’ve been teasing?
I genuinely look forward to seeing what the conspiracy folks have to say about this. They were already spun up about this being a final declaration of nuclear war. Such womp womp.
Because I change it frequently and it’s basically a personal list for me.
- Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radioEnglish2 months
Aint no government app ever going on anything I own. I dont care what government it is either.
How much you want to bet that it’s 100% vibe coded, tracks your every move, and has full access to all sensors?
Hope I’m wrong.
- architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish2 months
Well at least if it’s vibe coded it’s likely to be wrong about the data, anyways, while they are too stupid to retrieve it.
