People are concerned because they know that Donald Trump is an aspiring dictator. He doesn't want to install this app because he thinks it will serve some useful purpose, he wants to install it because he thinks the country and everyone in it is his property.
If he's allowed to get away with this, at some point before he's overthrown, he's going to force you, personally, to install this app. When you object that this is crazy, his remaining true believers will make up some nonsense reason why we shouldn't be worried.
The usual long period between elections and inauguration is going to create a massive window for data exfiltration and the only people empowered to police it and any evidence that it occurrred are the people most likely to be stealing the data.
Titillating, and cringey, and par for the course. But the concerns run more like this:
> An investigation by NOTUS found that the app incorporated widgets created by a Russia-based company called Elfsight, which exposed the personal information of White House officials. Elfsight did not respond to a request for comment. At the time of this reporting, the White House said Elfsight had been made aware of this vulnerability.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 49.0 ms ] threadIf he's allowed to get away with this, at some point before he's overthrown, he's going to force you, personally, to install this app. When you object that this is crazy, his remaining true believers will make up some nonsense reason why we shouldn't be worried.
What is newsworthy here? The fact that yet one more third-party (the White House) does it too?
Android devices have started installing hidden app that scans your images (mastodon.sdf.org)
The weirdness of the WH app is notable enough but standard organization practices aren't.
The usual long period between elections and inauguration is going to create a massive window for data exfiltration and the only people empowered to police it and any evidence that it occurrred are the people most likely to be stealing the data.
> A button within the app allows users to “text President Trump,” which autofills a text bubble reading “Greatest President Ever.”
It feels like something you might see from the government in a banana republic/authoritarian dictatorship.
> An investigation by NOTUS found that the app incorporated widgets created by a Russia-based company called Elfsight, which exposed the personal information of White House officials. Elfsight did not respond to a request for comment. At the time of this reporting, the White House said Elfsight had been made aware of this vulnerability.
and I am betting Shizuku can disable that
however I am sure that will trigger firing so probably not worth it
1000 days, hang in there, this is nothing, imagine what's going down winter holidays 2028