India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
India's telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed
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Weird way to say "backdoor."
Ah yes, cybersecurity.
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"Cannot be deleted"
sure. Based on ALL the youtube vids from India of unlocking phones or bypassing FRPs, etc I imagine it won't be long before you start seeing videos from India on how to easily bypass this.
I mean some of those FRP videos are wild with the steps they go through to unlock an Android phone.
Reminder that the current regime in India is fascist, who jails people by calling them Urban Naxals & anti-nationals.
There has to be a way to do all of this without installing something on your phone that you didn't ask for.
Isn't it a little suspicious that nearly every one who downloaded it later had their phone stolen?
It does say lost or stolen. I usually keep my phone on vibrate so when I set it down on a wired place at my home, I often use Google's find my phone feature to make it ring instead of looking around the house. They could be counting things like that.
Ah yes the Telecom minister of the BJP is notorious for creating some draconian bills that would put China to Shame.
Like the Broadcast Bill 2.0
I think it's called malware.
At some point, it will be easier to just not have a phone.
Sell your non I treated with phone to an Indian. You’ll both be happier.
Cyber security
In sure it protects children too by scanning for "child pornography" too, right?
Well I mean if you have a picture of yourself and your kids, or just of your kids, or your kids playing with their friends (other kids) that counts as highly suspicious since you have a lot of kid pics meaning you probably have child porn somewhere or maybe you are using them to train a LORA for an AI 'art' generator to make porn of those kids...
I'm going to stop there. But ANYTHING CAN BE TWISTED AGAINST YOU! I MEAN ANYTHING! I had that happen to me many times in my life.
will be interesting to see if Apple tells them to pound sand.
Like they did in China?
I wonder if this would make Apple pull out of India. It'd be awkward, with all the manufacturing they moved there.
Honestly that would be a good thing
I feel like they'd be happy installing yet another spying app, if that means getting to keep millions of data providers.
Someone never heard of ADB...
Android Debug Bridge? Please tell me I got it right!
And here I was considering petitioning for an open source UPI app.
Turns out, the Government is just another company now.