this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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How is this supposed to work? Won't real criminals just buy more secure devices to circumvent this surveillance?
This isn’t going to be regularly used. For the average iPhone user you’d probably need to use Pegasus, which costs something insane like US$60k per target device.
The more likey vector will be things like Ring doorbells - we already know Amazon will handover footage to Police without even requiring a warrant.
I assume the French also gained access to stuff like DROPOUTJEEP after signing the secret Lustre treaty.