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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 1 year ago

Governments spying on Apple and Google users through phone notifications, U.S. senator says

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Governments spying on Apple and Google users through phone notifications, U.S. senator says

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 1 year ago
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U.S. Senator Ron Wyden warned that foreign governments are spying on smartphone users by compelling Apple and Google to turn over push notification records
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    Use Molly, its a hardened version of signal app without push notification. It uses locally notifications.

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      Use Molly

      And wind up dehydrated in jail again?

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        What’s a little dehydration and imprisonment when you can have that afterglow, though

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        What is that supposed to mean? Is it a reference to something?

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          drug joke, I think

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        Whoah, roll in grass, dude

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          We’re rollin’ grass now, too?

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            Tall grass is very cool if you’re feeling hot and dehydrated

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              I understand eating it is good for an upset stomach, if a friend of mine who licks his own ass is too be believed.

              Doesn’t do us much good inside a jail cell, tho.

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        I’ll bring the blow pops, who’s got the Vicks?

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          I’ll bring the blow pops

          Not only am I not your pops, you really shouldn’t mix those.

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      You can have push notifications, right now there’s a unified push fork on the same Molly F-droid repository

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