Comment on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 month agoThe problem is that people are falling over themselves to help him and he keeps declining while looking at them like they’re the idiots.
Comment on Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 month agoThe problem is that people are falling over themselves to help him and he keeps declining while looking at them like they’re the idiots.
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
So what’s the complaint here, that he’s being rude? The only thing lost if people build an alternate app rather than being allowed to work on his app is him.
jarfil@beehaw.org 1 month ago
The complaint is: Narcissistic incompetent dev spreads FUD while putting vulnerable people at risk.
It’s rather concerning, if true.
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
The risk appears to be anxiety, not an active threat to their safety. The black box security analysis did not indicate any direct data leakage. We don’t know the app is safe, but we also don’t have any indication it’s doing anything particularly risky.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 month ago
For the most part, we don’t know what the risks are, because the app is closed-source.
What we do know is that Apple logs the downloads of every account on their platform. That alone is enough to paint a target on the backs of vulnerable people.
We also know that the gov is intercepting notification data, in the form of " which app received a notification and when, as well as the phone and associated Apple or Google account to which that notification was intended to be delivered. In certain instances, they also might also receive unencrypted content, which could range from backend directives for the app to the actual text displayed to a user in an app notification."
You can bypass this data collection by using UnifiedPush on Android. Apple has no such alternative.
These are all things that I, a random internet dumbass with no development experience, knows, but somehow this fool does not, despite being educated over and over.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 month ago
No, the thing that’s lost is all the vulnerable people using an app filled with vulnerabilities waiting to be exploited by a vindictive government.