I'm not at all surprised that authoritarian politicians would want features like this. From a technical perspective, though, I'm curious about how they would go about implementing them. Would they integrate backdoors into widely used apps with camera access, like WhatsApp? Or would they rely on exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in operating systems?
https://gizmodo.com/france-bill-allows-police-access-phones-camera-gps-1850609772
Shouldn't this be entirely avoidable using FOSS software? Once people review the code, there shouldn't be any issue of the sort.
And for the code I imply from the kernel, to the OS and to the apps, system or not.
Exactly my thoughts as well. Exploitation of undisclosed vulnerabilities would be truly wild. I’d say they’re just doing a China and asking Zuck & friends “politely” to open backdoors.
If they are using 0-day exploit, having everything FOSS does not help. Hence my question …
They make all the developers an offer they can't refuse... I believe even Signal which is supposed to be secure has a bit of code that is not open source.
Gotta look into it, thanks
isn't it a safe bet to assume that all those apps already have 0-day exploits?
That’s also a question have 🤔
It makes it legal for them to buy and deploy spyware such as Pegasus and its ilk.
You'd think that would be reserved for spy shit, but it is actually just people the local gov or corpos don't like, like soda tax activists in mexico.
