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Sony/Yoti reporting users to authorities for using GrapheneOS (discuss.grapheneos.org)

submitted 1 day ago by RobotToaster@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm not sure there's a direct connection to Sony here (I use a Sony phone and am thus interested in this).

The initial post of the linked Forum thread does not make any connection. The accompanying reddit thread makes the claim that "PlayStation/Sony recently introduced a company called Yoti for age verification" but Sony is not mentioned on Yoti's wikipedia.

What I am reading in the screenshots is pretty fucked up though.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 18 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

So just Yoti reporting users to authorities for using Grapheneos, got it.

[+] Hominine@lemmy.world -7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Even the screenshots have the odor of bullshit. This particular community loves to play the paranoid victim, which is unfortunate.

[–] Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 4 points 15 hours ago

GrapheneOS team has a pretty level take on the issue in the original thread:

This is fearmongering based on customer support making ridiculous claims to someone. There's nothing illegal about using GrapheneOS and the customer support is nearly certainly making it all up to get the person to go away so the ticket can be considered closed. It's unlikely the company has done anything to specifically detect GrapheneOS or ban using it. It's far more likely they detect not using a Google Mobile Services operating system without modifications. This customer support person went on a power trip to scare someone and get the ticket closed.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 20 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

This particular community loves to play the paranoid victim, which is unfortunate.

I agree, but Sony literally helped invent DRM. Sony went all-in on "fuck you" to their customers back when we all adored them for the Walkman.

And it feels like they have only rarely done better, since then, after exhausting all other options.

So I agree - we do jump there too quick.

But when we are discussing Sony, the ire is valid anyway.

Everyone at Sony can go fuck themselves - today, yesterday and just generally.

[–] Willdrick@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Don't forget about Sony rootkits on music CDs

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 13 hours ago

Yes. I can't forget. Those fuckers at Sony fucked my Windows install so badly I had to wipe and rebuild.