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this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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Is this a purely theoretical capability or is there actually evidence they have this capability?
Listening into a conversation that you’re intentionally relaying across public infrastructure and gaining access to the phone itself are two very different things.
How many zero-day exploits does the NSA have? How many can be deployed remotely and without a nontrivial action by a user?
Scale, capacity, cost, number of employees
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I’m not saying we shouldn’t oppose government surveillance. We absolutely should. But like another commenter pointed out, I’m much more concerned with the amount of data that corporations collect and have.