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      Who owns the app that gets the location data of every illegal immigrant? Maye they do know the Streisand effect.

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        While you’re right to be skeptical, if they just wanted to collect data they would have an Android version. And their stated reason for not supporting it, is that push notifications on Android would require them to at store device-IDs, which they want to avoid for privacy reasons and being vulnerable to subpoenas.

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        There are easier ways to get that data without having to trick people into downloading an app. Trump has palantir and Israel in his pocket. He already knows where they all are. The app just lets us all know where they are.

        Trump doesn’t like playing a fair game because he can’t win those.

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    Yeah, but I think it’s also because Republicans are downloading it and using it to spread fake ice raid claims, to confuse. So, I don’t think the numbers are necessarily because people hate ice or whatever.

    Guess we’ll see.

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    She said that there’s been a 500 percent increase against ICE agents who are just “trying to do their jobs and remove public safety threats from… communities.”

    Exactly what the Nazis who ran extermination camps claimed.

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      I loathe and despise using percentages like this.

      500% sounds super scary, but is meaningless without providing the baseline. If there was only one instance before and now there’s 5 it isn’t a significant increase but 500% sure sounds scary.

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        Worse still it’s not even clear what is being discussed. It implied “violence” but that is a wide range from just pushing to serious shooting.

        % can also be misleading when a scale is arbitrary. A temperature increase measured in Fahrenheit will be a rather different % when converted to Kelvin.

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          We all know that cops will try to charge you with assaulting them if you so much as shrug while being arrested. And they’ll contrive situations just so they can do that. I’d say that makes their statistics meaningless without specific details and proof.

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      …iOS forces uses Apple services including getting apps through Apple…

      Can’t speak to the rest of the claims, but Android practically does too. If one has to sideload an app, you’ve lost 99% of users, if not more.

      It makes me suspect they’re not talking about the stock systems OEMs ship.

      Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2501/

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        It makes me suspect they’re not talking about the stock systems OEMs ship.

        The developers of GrapheneOS, an independent, security-oriented Android distribution are probably not only talking about stock OEM Android. What they’re saying is true about stock OEM android though.

        That’s a separate issue from whether users are forced to get all their software from a specific source, which is also separate from whether users will actually use other sources when given the option.

        On Android, developers can offer users a way to install an app that isn’t easily traced to their identity and on iOS they can’t. Furthermore, an Android app can be both on the Play store and available from other sources; there’s no exclusivity.

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          You got that “tracked to their identity” opposite around. The reason why there is no Android App is, if the phone gets “found” the data about the user/owner is an open book.

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            This is not one of the claims made by the ICEBlock developers; their claims are only to do with notifications.

            If you want to claim that a locked Android device is substantially easier for law enforcement to break in to than a locked iPhone, please cite up-to-date (from 2025) sources.

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      Lol, called it.

      Incompetence and false bravado is all but guaranteed with development teams. Especially when it’s closed source, not audited, and has minimal room for feedback loops.

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        You don’t even need to audit a closed source app to know that Apple knows which devices its sending pushes to. It works because they know.

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          And how would they know that? That would mean push notifications would go via an Apple Server. Wich a) makes no sense b) can be masquerade so that the server does not know who talks to whom c) the meta information and the notification can be deleted timely

          On the other hand, I guess most Android “low level” peer to peer apps go via FireBase?

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            All push notifications go through APNS on apple. That’s Apple Push Notifications Service.

            APNS requires the device to authenticate with it and can uniquely identify the device by an id. Its how it sends messages to devices.

            Firebase cloud messaging acts the same way for true push notifications.

            You don’t need to audit a device using APNS or FCM on Android to know that it is not anonymous.

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      Federation is an overly complicated solution it’s not required. It also wouldn’t actually help, they can still take it off the app store there’d be another one but they would just play whack-a-mole and you can achieve the same thing with open source.

      The best bet would be to have the database hosted outside the US and just have apps that pull the data from an API. There’s no need for the app itself to store the data in fact that’s a really stupid way to do it. You could federate it if you wanted but honestly that’s probably unnecessary

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        Facepalm. If the App does not store the data in a 5 mile radius … how do you at least see the latest status when the power and internet is down?

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          I can’t tell if you’re serious or not.

          If the internet is down then I don’t have access to the app store. Also if the internet’s down then the data is going to be out of date almost immediately anyway so any cached version would be useless.

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      Federated application for a map with markers and notes?

      It seems for me that this would be too narrow a purpose.

      Maybe a general-purpose public notification map. With some functionality allowing to separate markers by their authors and by tags. Or it can be spammed with bogus markers. By tags - well, for it to be general-purpose. By authors - because moderation can’t be left to instance admins.

      And, of course, I’m personally for separation of moderation, instance ownership, identities and hosting, but my own toy attempt showed me that the logic of checking the chain of privilege delegation is kinda PITA. That is, separating identities from instances is not that hard. And communities. What’s hard is the community owner delegating rights to other identities, and in general authorized actions. It’s a task of determining which privileges does an identity currently possess, and how does it affect its own actions on the community, and in which order should those be processed … Everything is harder than it seems. Sad.

      So federation is fine LOL.

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        Why too narrow of a use case?

        Imagine federation with text linked to other text, that’d be crazy, right?

        Wait, it’s actually more complicated than that 🤔


        But FR using existing federated protocols to build something like this is EXACTLY what the protocols are for. You don’t need to implement the federation yourself, you can use an existing network

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      Send & Receive alerts about ICE raids and activity in your area. Stop ICE Alerts Network works with technology already built into your phone without the need to download an app.

      This is the way.

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        You’ve still got to connect to their servers and they can monitor who connects to what.

        I wouldn’t trust it without a non-US based VPN. We should assume anything in the US is compromised by the fed, and that they are watching.

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          they can monitor who connects to what.

          They can also not do that.

          We should assume anything in the US is compromised by the fed

          International VPNs are not immune from US subpoena.

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            international VPNs are not immune from US subpoena

            And condoms are only 98% effective.

            A condom and VPN work on the same principle: a layer of protection. No protection is ever 100% effective, but you can at least try.

            Remember, they’re already building the camps. It’s only a matter of time before “helping illegals” is a crime that gets you sent to the camps. I’d rather make the fascists work for it at least.

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              And condoms are only 98% effective.

              Your analogy doesn’t make sense. It would be more apt to say “condoms from Walmart can be compromised!” but it makes no sense because they can be compromised anywhere. If you think shopping somewhere else means they won’t be compromised, that’s not logical.

              It’s not to say that you shouldn’t use them, it’s to say that you shouldn’t judge them based on the geographical location they’re acquired.

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    Clearly it’s just safety minded individuals acquiring it. This app helps keep communities safe from unmarked armored vehicles filled with masked criminal cop impersonators.