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Apple Pressed by India to Pre-Install Government Apps on iPhones (www.macrumors.com)
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The push comes as India seeks greater regulatory control over global tech companies. The initiative would require manufacturers to include the government's GOV.in app store and related apps like BHIM, DigiLocker, VoterID on smartphones sold from India.

Beyond pre-installation, they also requested that their apps be available for download outside the company's app stores from third-party sources without triggering "untrusted source" warnings.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

These are neither confirmed, nor have ever been proven, and don't deal with phones.

The first link is about networking hardware, which has already been found by security researchers long ago.

The second is about an attempt at doing something like a backdoor that never came to fruition.

The last link has never been observed or proven, and how it would work is impossible to know. Having a "backdoor" on a CPU is meaningless without the other attached hardware to work with. Some would say impossible, and made up.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So you don’t believe anything that’s been leaked by whistleblowers? You think the Snowden stuff is all fake?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The NSA activities Snowden leaked were specifically happening in data and telecom centers to snoop traffic in transit. He make known some secret programs about exploiting and compromising devices, but of that's already known as a possibility. He never detailed anything about backdoors on phones from manufacturers as you've suggested.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Right, the Snowden leaks did not include phone backdoors. Just everything else you denied.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol I'm not denying anything but your misguided comment. It's not accurate.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s 100% accurate.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cool, then proof.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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