A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

  • virgo@lemmy.zipEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    Well crap, we’re fucked then?

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    We are just as fucked as we’ve always been. Hackers use zero-day vulnerabilities. Can’t do too much about that. Any device is hackable. That became clear after Snowden, and the USA hacking irans centrifuge.

    • Gray@lemmy.caEnglish
      25·
      1 year ago

      The US hacking Iran’s centrifuges would have been preventable though with careful device management as far as I understand. The worm they used, Stuxnet, didn’t come from nowhere. It either came from a USB that hadn’t been properly sanitized or their systems were connected to an external, unprotected network when they definitely should have been isolated. That’s a preventable virus and unrelated to conversations about backdoors being built into technology for governments to access.

      • virgo@lemmy.zipEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        We dropped a USB stick in the parking lot and they plugged the virus into the system lol

      • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know that part would have made much difference, they were already air gapped and the NSA probably could have figured out just about any centrifuge: The hard part was delivering the payload, which was apparently delivered via a rubber ducky left in a parking lot.