This can't be real, but it is.
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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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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.
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.