• Colloidal@programming.dev
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      1 day ago

      A lot of people. Most not through idiocy, but through knowledge suppression. All mass media is in the hands of the robber class.

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        I don’t buy it (no pun inteneded)… it’s not escaping the matrix, all the horrible stuff these companies do is out in the open now

        I’m not saying some couldn’t still be fooled, but enough to make these spyware gear commercially viable at those prices and in the current economic enviroment?

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      it’s possible to intercept the traffic to see what they are sending or not sending… I don’t see the need for ad hominem.

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        19 hours ago

        They could also just continue collecting data while the mic is muted and hold that until the next time the device is unmuted. Then upload their spy data at the same time as legitimate data to hide it.

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        22 hours ago

        no, it isnt… traffick would be encrypted (and if it isn’t, that would be an even worse privacy/security nightmare)