This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Cheesy electron wrapper does some tracking. News at 9.
Is this the same app that also has a feature that allows you to inform on others to ICE?
Who tf is out here downloading the White House app?
I just learned it existed
LOL. White House app. Just fuck right off with your propaganda 🤣🤣🤣🤣
...the idea was to track POTUS47, as a sole user of the app, as he notoriously got lost...
Why would anyone download this?
If you're so stupid that you install an app for Trump propaganda, you deserve to boot of the state on your neck.
its gotta be hard to be a conspiracy theorist nowadays where every theory turns out to be true
I wish any of the conspiracy theorists theories are the real theories.
They are all into pizzagate and flat earth, and not "huh, I bet the government's app is a peice of shit that's tracking me"
hey i'm a bigfoot truther. his name is larry and he's real into hugs
i mean that's it. we don't really have much beyond he sings like a moose that one time we let him use the shower. WHICH WAS A MISTAKE HE CLOGGED THE DAMN THING. but he sang like a moose.
It's only paranoia when you're wrong.
Is it paranoia though if they believe in a particular thing with no actual evidence and it just turns out that they're partially correct by chance?
Because there are plenty of conspiracies along the lines of "the government is monitoring everyone" but it's always been via nanobots in your blood or via psychic energies being emitted from 5G towers. It's never "the government to tracking me with this GPS enabled device that I voluntarily purchased with my own money, now excuse me I have to make a rambling geotagged Facebook post the Gray Aliens".
Conspiracy theorists never actually believe in the actual conspiracies. No it's always the lamp posts broadcasting nanobots into your blood. And not that the phone that has tracking capabilities is tracking you, in fact no conspiracy theorist ever has ever been worried about their iPhone or billionaires sending plenty text emails to each other about to listen activities.
Scary thing is that this is EXTREMELY common....
scary thing is most people have no idea. scroll cats 🤷
Thank god that they banned foreigner made Routers to their whole country for security reasons though.
I have been saving up for a router and wanted to support a company that sells devices that are compatible with as much open source software as possible.
This really sucks. If I had known this was going to happen randomly I would have prioritised saving up faster and just not spent it on other things. I had no idea I needed to prioritise this.
But like I say frequently about the US. It is a very prohibitionist country. You never know when the next thing you do or use will be criminalized or prohibited. Then you will be at risk of being arrested and in some cases even sent to a literal for profit private prison ran by a place like CoreCivic. It is fucked up.
Even if I were to get a router from a foreign manufacturer now, it likely won't be legal for me to actually use it. The FCC could at the very least fine somebody depending on how this order will be enforced.
There is also possibly going to be a risk of it being seized at the border.
Who knows how this will even be enforced since the vast vast majority of consumer routers are not even made in the US. I don't even know of one truly made in the US. But a router from a foreign open source focused company will likely be considered even more of a "foreign manufacturer".
Banning routers today, Reuters tomorrow.
Wtf is a White House app good for? Streamlining his mental diahrea into your hands?
Official propaganda delivered right to your push notifications:
Wow. That's North Korea levels of propaganda.
The researcher's page referenced by this article: https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
Are journalists required to download the shit App?
One thing I don't think has got enough attention is the fact that it does a fetch from Truth Social as well, which means Trump personally gets at least some indirect data on the app's users on a server that isn't even slightly controlled or contracted by the government.
Altogether now, and-a-one, and-a-two, and-a-one-two-three...
BUT HER EMAILS
BUT SLEEPY JOE WANTED FREE TRANSGENDER FOR IMMIGRANT DRAG QUEENS IN COMMUNIST SCOOLS
If you're stupid enough to install that on your phone, you deserve whatever it is that you get. I'm surprised it doesn't periodically send your browsing history to the fuhrer for inspection. Wouldn't want those sheep getting the wrong thoughts.
I'm surprised it doesn't periodically send your browsing history to the fuhrer for inspection.
That's the ultimate objective, of course. That, and tracking every opinion you post on social media.
