12 points | by Muhammad523 an hour ago
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What are they scanning? Are they just trying to figure out what devices are in range?
Is that effective surveillance? I know SMS is plain text, but anything interesting is probably on iMessage, or RCS, or SSL web, no?
It's warrantless location tracking that they value more than direct interception.
right, instead of getting the "Person of Interest" AI, we're getting the locally deployed to the worst type of people for whatever they deem "valid" until someone stops them.
What are they scanning? Are they just trying to figure out what devices are in range?
Is that effective surveillance? I know SMS is plain text, but anything interesting is probably on iMessage, or RCS, or SSL web, no?
It's warrantless location tracking that they value more than direct interception.
right, instead of getting the "Person of Interest" AI, we're getting the locally deployed to the worst type of people for whatever they deem "valid" until someone stops them.