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France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people (gazettengr.com)
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A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

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[–] eleitl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn't even wrong. What is the attack vector? They send a magic message that 0wns Signal, and then cleans up? At scale? With nobody noticing? This doesn't happen.

[–] randombit@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

A few comments, they don’t need to have a Signal vulnerability, just an OS vulnerability since that would allow access to decrypted Signal messages. In the past, there have been zero click SMS and iMessage vulnerabilities. There have also been web vulnerabilities.

The attacks are not sent at scale to avoid detection. They are used on specific dissidents and journalists.