Sweet. I appreciate that their reaction has Streisand-effected this app into my awareness.
"[the app] basically paints a target on federal law enforcement officers’ backs"
When it comes to painting targets on backs, better them then innocent civilians.
Lol.
R's have not only painted targets, they've made ads, and joked about killing civilians and anyone other than MAGAts
Greene in an ad for her 2020 campaign cocked an assault rifle as she warned “antifa terrorists” to stay out of her district
Masters, a venture capitalist and favorite of Trump-loving billionaire Peter Thiel, has featured guns prominently throughout his primary campaign. He responded to President Biden’s promise on Monday to crack down on “ghost guns,” which are homemade and untraceable, by tweeting a picture of a “ghost gun” he recently built himself. “Very legal & very cool,” he wrote.
https://www.indy100.com/politics/eric-greitens-campaign-ad-gun
"There's no bagging limit, no tagging limit, and it doesn't expire until we save our country."
"I look forward to the day that Democrats are so rare, we have to hunt them with dogs,"
Edit: and for the record, Blake Masters is a piece of shit buddy of both elon and Vance and they are all tied together in their hate for democracy and love of Curtis Yarvin and the plot to destroy western civilization. (Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets)
They could try not being brown shirts. Problem solved.
I love the quote about how it is putting federal agents in danger...and I sort of think that they are doing that themselves.
Good, those agents are playing a dangerous game and you should know if you play with fire your going get burned. Its a matter of time before they try to kidnap the wrong person, and that person decides its better to die in America then it is to go to a camp then deported.
Shouldn’t be an app. It should be a site accessible using vpn and private browsing with an appropriate browser. Nobody should have to worry about the Stasi finding the app on their phone regardless of the situation.
While this is true, most people are not so tech savvy, maybe giving an option to mask app Icon to user choice can help it hide better.
While I agree, in this particular case I think it's a good idea.
I would imagine this is very similar to marking a cop on Waze and completely legal which is why they are throwing a hissy fit.
I love how the Streisand Effect works. They just made this app the hottest thing out there.
It's closed source, and the build and publishing pipeline isn't transparent.
For me that makes this no different than a potential ICE honey pot
can’t even find “Joshua Aaron” on linked in or github. feels a little sus. my moneys on honey pot
Is the app foss?
No, and even worse, its only for apple devices lmao. These kids are so unserious in their activism it would be funny if it werent so sad. If shit hits the fan, this stuff will go down instantly and im sure it has no backup plan for a Tor based or p2p service. Activists in the US should start using Briar. This situation is exactly what it was made for and people have to get their tech game up fast or they will be done for. Get a shitty 80$ android phone if you only have an iphone. Install a panic trigger app that will wipe the phone if you are in trouble.
On ICEBlocks website it says:
Modeled after Waze but for ICE sightings, the app ensures user privacy by storing no personal data, making it impossible to trace reports back to individual users.
Which worries me, because if its closed source then thats a worthless promise and actually makes the app a perfect candidate for a honeypot or backdoor.
Twenty years ago tracking armed thugs in ski masks would have been called a public service.
Anyone have a link to the app/website? I’d like to follow some among honing my horn and warning folks.
Is this only on Apple? Kind of lame.
This is IOS only owing to Android play store collecting a device identifier; the creator wanted complete anonymity
Quote from some other place people were discussing it. Unfortunately no source on it.
There are other stores besides the playstore..
It's not about the store, it's about the notification.
As mentioned in the Time article:
the app is not available on Android because it "requires a device ID in order to send push notifications, which requires a user account and a password."
You don't need a user account or password to receive a push notification.
You just need to have the app installed. The app can be configured by the developer to receive push notifications.
Ntfy.sh
There are ways around that
Its totally possible to send notification without having user account, see firebase.
Was curious so Iooked up the app's site.
Apparently the devs claim they can't release it on Android because "There's no way to be anonymous on the play store", but it's even more impossible to be anonymous on the platform they've released. That's how you know the developer is incredibly stupid and/or shady as hell- because they've never even heard of Fdroid?
Makes me think the app is a troll/trojan horse (not as in infection, trojan horse as in it has alterior motives)
The Drumpf crew "losing it" over the app just makes it more questionable. They love to create a firestorm so people talk about the thing "they definitely don't want you to use!!" to get people to do things...
if they're worried about being tracked maybe they could do the easiest thing in the world which is not being complete shitheads?
“He’s giving a message to criminals where our federal officers are, and he cannot do that, and we are looking at it, we are looking at him, and he better watch out,” Bondi said. “Because that is not protected speech, that is threatening the lives of our law enforcement officers throughout this country, and shame on CNN!”
Why can't he do that, Pammy?
Gotta say Aaron is a bold motherfucker.
No, no, no. They painted the targets on themselves.
This app is telling people where to avoid. Not where to go.
All of a sudden, so many things are "not protected speech". I find it tempting to be as ignorant as a Republican, but I'd certainly be caught off guard in that case.
Ice and snowflakes always seem to go so well with one another.
Lets build more ICE-tracking apps
This gives honeypot vibes. IOS only with no way to access via browser?
criminals dont like being tracked
This app sounds exceedingly useful to me.
It sounds like a honeypot to me. But I would be happy to be proven wrong.
Edit: and it’s gone?
Seems like the kind of thing a defederated system would be good for...
*federated
decentralized + federated = defederated
Could it be any more clear? /s
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