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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are (www.nytimes.com)
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Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.

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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That only mitigates. There are still a number of ways to potentially track a hardened phone, and countless ways to breach proper OPSEC on social media that have nothing to do with the platform.

Don't rely entirely on system choices to keep you safe.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yep your modem baseband is 100% hackable or already backdoored

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

your modem baseband is 100% hackable or already backdoored

I hear this mentioned a lot but how exactly is it "backdoored"?

Like... does LineageOS help? Does GrapheneOS help?

Is it like IntelME/AMD-PSP?

(Oh btw LineageOS apparantly breaks the data connection of my carrier so... 🤷‍♂️ there's that...)

[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I would also like to know more. Have you got a link to something for a layperson re this?

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Where can I learn more about this?