This can't be real, but it is.
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Do not download the app. It will only be used against you in the future.
Did you even read how the app works? Even the most paranoid security professionals say it's safe from government snooping.
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Quality response there
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Normally I write detailed responses but what you said was so stupid I didn't feel it even justified a detailed response.
I choose to ridicule your ridiculous statement.
Never mind the app! Smartphones by design are not secure, whatever app you are running.
See Edward Snowden's revelations from 2011. Five Eyes PRISM skirts privacy laws with a loop hole; they spy on their own citizens by spying on each other and sharing the data.
If the government is already tracking my phone, why would they need a contact tracing app then?
They don't. If you trust any app or any production smartphone as being "safe from government snooping", you need to learn more about the capabilities of modern surveillance.
I write "See Edward Snowden's revelations from 2011": That's a great place to start.
Both the mobile app and backend server are open source, and the code has been heavily scrutinized by security professionals.
This is one of the rare times the government actually did things right, instead of half assing it. Surprising, i know.
It's for contact tracing. So, the app exchanges code between phones when they are near each other (kind of).
Let's say my phone sends you a code because we were near each other. Then I test positive to covid after that. I can let someone in the health care system go in the "main program" and enter that I was found positive. Everyone that has one of my code in their phone will be alerted that they were near someone who was declared positive.
You can now go to test yourself too. That's faster than having people calling and doing manual contact tracing.
Contact tracing is important to keep the spread of the virus low.
In minecraft, you can find out just how safe it really is by downloading it on a spare phone, falsely inputting that you tested positive, and then hiding that phone in a high-traffic area so it lights up many others. See how fast it takes them to find it, and how long it takes to trace it back to you.
If you read how the app works, you'd know a positive COVID test is required to activate exposure notifications.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. It's on your phone, so I guess you could say any app on your phone "know who you are"?
Yes, if you input the code given to you by the health care system.
No, there are no links between your app/phone and the "main server".
Well yeah, once you input your positive test (One time code) the app will upload all codes you've been in contact with in the last 14 days.
If that bothers you, you're probably the type of person to get a positive COVID test and refuse to cooperate with authorities on manual contact tracing. Hell, you'll probably just ignore quarantine and walk around purposely infecting everyone while you're at it.
Just RTFM, idiot.
So, all security professionals are paid by the government?
The code is open source. Review it yourself then.
It's the same sort of person that clicks the 'close' button on banner adds because they think it has to do what it says it does.
Actually, you can decompile pretty much anything....
You'll loose some information (comments, indentation, etc) and of course, you can't compare it 1 on 1 with the source code, but you can still see the code from the play / app store and look if there is any sneaky stuff.
You can also use tools such as WireShark and other proxy tools to see what is communicated between the app and the internet/servers.
If you got Google Maps on your phone, its literally tracking your GPS movements 24/7.
Yet were all terrified of an app that just shares randomly generated numbers over bluetooth .
You seem like the type of faggot who uses android ?
That app is open source, you can check the code... It's actually less "invasive" than apps like Facebook and the like.
Other than that, there are already available technologies to track your phones/you far more viable and easy to use by the police and governments than what someone could achieve with this app (like sting rays, for example). And there are probably others that you don't know about that the CSIS uses, so I don't know why they would make something public to "trick you" to install it and then use it against you when they can just use technologies you don't even know about.
Google knows everything about you and their servers are in the States where Canadians have no rights. You are too late to close the door. The cats are gone.
It's not to "physically track the user and other users around them". It doesn't "track" users, it exchanges "keys" through Bluetooth. It can know if you were near other people only when a specific 'key' is 'published'.
You can look at the source code here: https://github.com/cds-snc/covid-alert-app
You can read on how it works here: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/covid-alert/privacy-policy/assessment.html#a6
There are easier way to really track people than with an app like this.
I think it would be useful if enough people download and use it, actually. That might prevent other lockdowns. But, no countries that released these kind of apps reached the amount needed (like 53% of the population using it or something like that). So we'll see...
It would prevent lockdowns because contact tracing would be fast and it would keep numbers of people that you infect low.
Unfortunately, if you do not have symptoms, you can still propagate the virus. There is a difference between pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic, but you can't know which one you are if you don't have any symptoms.
Asymptomatic people are people that will never have symptoms, and pre-symptomatic are people that will have symptoms, but don't at the moment.
If you're pre-symptomatic, you can spread the virus. Pre-symptomatic people could be responsible at around 40-45% of all cases iirc.
About the potential of abuse, like I said in other posts, is really low and not really viable (technically and economically) compared to using technologies that already exist.
I'm not sure what you mean by "staying power"? But unlike the flu, Covid-19 doesn't have any treatments. And the death rate of the flu is around 0.1%, For covid 19, it's hard to tell right now as it changes a lot from country to country, depending on testing, etc. But it's about 1% from what we know.
The thing is, that apps grants google or apple access to ping other phones nearby you that also have the app.
If youre found to not have the vaccine or wtv and you were nearby someone, the gestapo will arrive at your home and claim you were in contacted with an infected.
In reality theyre just preparing to take away anyone thats ever questioned anything.
He did it to virtue signal and suck up to Xi.
Remember when Italy had "hug a Chinese person" day.
Are saying that Trudeau intentionally allowed the covid-19 virus to enter Canada, so that they could make everybody install apps on their phones to spy on them?
I see a couple of problems with that statement. The first one being that if he "intentionally allowed the virus in", it means that "he" could've stopped it? Isn't health a provincial responsibility? So, it means that he plotted that with all the provinces of Canada?
Also, it means that it's just a mass conspiracy by virtually all countries in the world to "let the virus enter their countries" to make their citizens install an app to spy on them? Or is there other reasons to let the virus "intentionally enter a country"?
Wouldn't that be easier by other means, like what the NSA already did in the past? Like having backdoors on hardware that makes up the Internet. Or you know, maybe installing sting rays here and there to check on people's movements, facial recognitions on public cameras, etc.
Why would they make their citizens install an app, that is open source (so you can check the code) and works in such a way that makes it virtually not viable to track people with it VS secretly roll out technologies like the ones that already exists?
Do you mean the customs let the virus in the country?
Well, it's easy to say after all of that happened, but it looks like it's the case for a lot of other countries, no?
And why would he knowingly let a virus enter a country and cripple the economy, knowing that it's going to hurt his future election, just to make people install an app to track them when he could've just roll out known technology secretly (which are already available and in use) to spy on the people?
When should he have captain hindsight?