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This is the kind of behavior I’d expect from this administration.
The bar is so low and they still manage to limbo under it
My favorite formulation is:
The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here you are, limbo dancing with the devil.
Lol I remember watching that YouTube video about a north Korean phone that took screenshots every few minutes.
Freedom™
Microsoft Recall
The key difference is, instead of your data winding up in an oppressive, kleptocratic surveillance state, it goes to the oppressive, kleptocratic adtech industry (dw, your data is also still sent to the oppressive, kleptocratic surveillance state,)
Freedom as a tag line not as a promise.
Who the actual fuck would install an app from lying scum dumpy? Holy shit.
Those who lost money on Trump coin.
HAHAHAHAHA
With all material pain this man has inflicted, I totally forgot about his crypto scam.
What the fuck, he’s so cartoonishly evil.
To be fair the type of person that would install a white house app probably needs to be tracked anyway.
This is tracking the press who need it for their job
Is the app a requirement to get a press pass?
If that were even remotely true hopefully the press is smart enough to install on a burner "work" phone that sits in their desk drawer, or on a secondary account that is logged out by default.
Thank god that they banned foreigner made Routers to their whole country for security reasons though.
Banning routers today, Reuters tomorrow.
The funny thing is, THIS seems to be the part the media is rolling with, but if you read the full details about what it can do and how poorly it's made, tracking your location is only one thing to worry about (though it's a big one to be fair).
E.g The potential for running arbitrary malicious code if one random dude on the internet (who is unrelated to the US government) has his GitHub account compromised? Daaaaaaawg
its gotta be hard to be a conspiracy theorist nowadays where every theory turns out to be true
I wish any of the conspiracy theorists theories are the real theories.
They are all into pizzagate and flat earth, and not "huh, I bet the government's app is a peice of shit that's tracking me"
If you're stupid enough to install that on your phone, you deserve whatever it is that you get. I'm surprised it doesn't periodically send your browsing history to the fuhrer for inspection. Wouldn't want those sheep getting the wrong thoughts.
So their app description is lying?
Probably copy-pasted from some other app ... which is also lying about data security.
Wtf is a White House app good for? Streamlining his mental diahrea into your hands?
According to the Google Play Store, there are 467 reviews (4.8 stars) but "0+" downloads. Like everything else about the White House, it doesn't add up.
And maybe most people know to keep it off their phones.
Why would anyone install government shit on their phone
From the US government, I completely agree. But a functional government helps and supports its citizens and there are plenty of ways an app on your phone can help. Admittedly that's pretty ideological, but at the very least I'd argue there is a spectrum
It should just be a website and not something that needs to live on my phone 24/7
It’s because there were SO many downloads, more than two BILLION I’m told, by some really fantastic people who made the app, this wonderful app, that we hit something called an INTEGER LIMIT. Can you believe that? We had so many of you GREAT Americans sign up, that it just completely broke the App Store. It’s just incredible.
/s
The Play Store has recently (I think about 3 years ago?) introduced delayed updates for things like download counts because they were battling faked statistics (e.g. the download counter could be manipulated by bot farms), so now downloads are accumulated and checked against users actually using the app and having it on their devices - which takes time to update so IIRC they now only update that counter every month. Hence the 0+ downloads.
509 reviews as I write this and still 0 downloads and zero of those 509 reviews have any text; they just have ratings.
One thing I don't think has got enough attention is the fact that it does a fetch from Truth Social as well, which means Trump personally gets at least some indirect data on the app's users on a server that isn't even slightly controlled or contracted by the government.
Butter emails
If you're so stupid that you install an app for Trump propaganda, you deserve to boot of the state on your neck.
The researcher's page referenced by this article: https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
Why would anyone download this?
Altogether now, and-a-one, and-a-two, and-a-one-two-three...
BUT HER EMAILS
LOL. White House app. Just fuck right off with your propaganda 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Surprised=False
i installed it on my burner and it's asking permission to check my buttholes
