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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.
Who tf is out here downloading the White House app?
I just learned it existed
Thank god that they banned foreigner made Routers to their whole country for security reasons though.
Banning routers today, Reuters tomorrow.
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,)
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"
A previous version of this article stated that the White House app was actively tracking users' GPS coordinates every 4.5 minutes via OneSignal's SDK. This characterisation, which circulated widely on X, including in posts that accumulated hundreds of thousands of views, has since been contested by independent technical analysis. Multiple developers who reviewed the decompiled code confirmed that while the GPS tracking constants exist within OneSignal's bundled SDK, the app does not call that capability. No location permission prompt is issued to users upon installation, and OneSignal's documentation states that location data is not collected unless a developer explicitly enables the feature. The GPS code is most likely residual from the SDK template rather than a deliberate implementation. This article has been updated to reflect that distinction.
This is at the bottom of the article.
Anybody, anybody at all, who believes that they aren't going to be doing something really machiavellian, after operating on a "million deportations per year" paradigm, needs their head examined.
After dictatorship is activated, it'll be required for citizens.
Wait & see..
( & if they forgot to put spyware into their app this time, that doesn't mean it won't come in in an update. )
Get cynical: evidence warrants it, nowadays..
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PS: I have NO idea why a partial-version of this comment got multi-posted, while I was still writing it.
Sorry.
( & if they forgot to put spyware into their app this time, that doesn't mean it won't come in in an update. )
Do you honestly believe the federal government needs people to install the official Whitehouse app in order to track their location?
If so, lol.
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.
I'm going to have to check my mother's phone.
But her emails!!!!
Wtf is a White House app good for? Streamlining his mental diahrea into your hands?
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.
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
To be fair the type of person that would install a white house app probably needs to be tracked anyway.
If you're so stupid that you install an app for Trump propaganda, you deserve to boot of the state on your neck.
Why would anyone download this?
So their app description is lying?
Probably copy-pasted from some other app ... which is also lying about data security.
The researcher's page referenced by this article: https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
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.
LOL. White House app. Just fuck right off with your propaganda 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
Is this the same app that also has a feature that allows you to inform on others to ICE?
...the idea was to track POTUS47, as a sole user of the app, as he notoriously got lost...
Altogether now, and-a-one, and-a-two, and-a-one-two-three...
BUT HER EMAILS
