TLDR: Drug dealers in Catalonia have started to adopt GrapheneOS en masse leading to Catalan police suspecting anyone with a Google Pixel is a drug dealer

  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Basically, if you don’t have a phone the cops can easily backdoor, you must be a criminal.

    “What do you have to hide?” taken to it’s logical conclusion.

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      3 months ago

      Humans are apes desiring power, there’s no excuse under which you can give it to them. They’ll invent authority giving them right to judge you and think they are in the right.

      Also why I absolutely despise the Silicon Valley - it’s many such people who think they are the elite now. I want that place detroited as soon as possible. Zuckerberg prosecuted for all the murders he’s committed (I’m certain there are plenty, a person with ASPD with such power just can’t be anything else) which are now unknown, Brin and other jerks playing “cooperating with legal elected authorities” while giving them something with no mandate whatsoever feeling themselves powerful - prosecuted for high treason, all these playing censorship and recommendation - prosecuted for scams on the scale of billions, yadda-yadda.

      Cops saying this should be immediately sued for inciting hate or defamation or whatever against people who don’t want to be backdoored.

      I have a right to not be surveilled, they don’t have a right to surveil me.

      Anyway, I might all the time fly a weird trajectory between various ideologies, but they are all anarchist and Silicon Valley bosses are all thieves.

    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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      3 months ago

      Basically, if you don’t have a phone the cops can easily backdoor, you must be a criminal.

      … and if it’s an obscenely expensive one.

      Normal people either can’t afford these devices or don’t have time for all the hassle of installing and using a rare operating system on a phone.

      • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        Pixels are mid range if you buy a generation back. I have 6a and paid $250 two years ago.

        No one forces you to root your Pixel, you are allowed to use it with stock android.

      • IllNess@infosec.pub
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        3 months ago

        Minimum wage in Spain is €1,300 per month. A Pixel 9a is under $500 and under €550 and currently on sale for $449 and €500. A couple of hundred can get you a Pixel 9. What exactly is a not obscenely price for a flagship phone to you?

        And I don’t even understand your second comment. People spend over an hour a day on social media alone.

        So the normal person in Spain could buy this phone and the normal person in Spain does have the time to figure out how to install a “rare” operating system. A “rare” operating system that’s free and easily copied.

      • icegladiator@lemy.lolOP
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        3 months ago

        GrapheneOS is most used on old Google Pixels which are anything but “obscenely expensive”

      • Benaaasaaas@group.lt
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        3 months ago

        Pixel 9 pro with 512Gb is obscenely expensive. Pixel 8a, with minimal storage is pretty affordable. 7a dare I say cheap.