France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone

Re:France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phon... by nimbius on Thursday July 06, 2023 @10:28AM (#36616382)

reminder that fdroid offers apps that will monopolize the microphone so it cannot be used by other programs (pilfershush for example.)

electrical tape on your camera should take care of the rest, and developer mode lets you feed the system bogus GPS data at will.

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Re:France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phon... by x3m157 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @10:42AM (#36616675)

All good ideas for general opsec, however the last one is moot if you're connecting to cell networks - tower connection and triangulation data is not local to your phone and is already relatively easy for police to access with a warrant.

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Re:France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phon... by aembleton on Thursday July 06, 2023 @12:57PM (#36619022)

Does that also stop the baseband from accessing the microphone? How would I test that?

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