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Re:New German government calls for European ban on biometric... by throwaway55421 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @08:38PM (#29346775)
Until it auto updates.

If it even matches the source as is. Play Store and App Store are non reproducible.

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Re:New German government calls for European ban on biometric... by simion314 on Friday November 26, 2021 @01:29AM (#29347948)
Do you pay cash when you go to restaurants or shopping? If you pay electronically then why do you trust the payment system? (it is not open source,reproducible and for sure your purchases contain much more data then what you imply the QR code scanner collects)
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Re:New German government calls for European ban on biometric... by lmm on Friday November 26, 2021 @03:23AM (#29348371)
Many Germans refuse to use anything but cash for that very reason, so this isn't a very strong argument.
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Re:New German government calls for European ban on biometric... by emteycz on Friday November 26, 2021 @02:49AM (#29348217)
Yes. And meal tickets for most people here - so cash equivalent.
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Re:New German government calls for European ban on biometric... by throwaway55421 on Friday November 26, 2021 @04:45AM (#29348775)
Yes.
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Re:New German government calls for European ban on biometric... by sc11 on Saturday November 27, 2021 @07:01AM (#29359520)
It's on f-droid with reproducible builds.

Obviously there's a risk that the person scanning the QR code does shady things with it but it's rather unlikely the app itself will. It would be caught really quickly.

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