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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.

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[–] cygnus_velum@lemmy.world 77 points 2 years ago (32 children)

How is this even feasible on Android or iPhones? Are they going to force everyone to download Team Viewer or something?

[–] CookieJarObserver@feddit.de 60 points 2 years ago (22 children)

Usually with Pegasus. And yes it works. Don't ask about it.

[–] IAccidentallyCame@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wonder if Google, Apple, or SoC makera are asked or secretly mandated to leave certain backdoors in. I know mobile providers have quite a bit they can see on their end.

It's a good thing we're always presented with two choices for everything, like mobile OS's, to control our choices like we're toddlers.

[–] CookieJarObserver@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago

They don't really need to, the company making Pegasus is very very skilled, they however get paid for that as well, its absolutely not worth it for a normal person usually.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Mobile operators have baseband which is why we have modem isolation. And some of us can see quite a bit on our end, too.

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