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   Lykanthrocide (lykanthrocide@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 01:16:39 JST Lykanthrocide

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   @quad > this company essentially held a killswitch
   
   Was just explaining this to someone irl. I wouldn't be surprised if this whole thing is a test run for a blackout or cyber attack or something.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 01:16:39 JST 翠星石

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     @lykanthrocide >I wouldn't be surprised if this whole thing is a test run for a blackout or cyber attack or something.
     This is clearly a case of incompetence rather than malice.
     
     If they want to pull off a blackout or a cyber attack, they can do it anytime without needing to do a live test first as they have a remote backdoor that allows them to load whatever kernel modules they want.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 01:26:37 JST 翠星石

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     @lykanthrocide Yes they can.
     
     Apple has a remote backdoor into every iOS device via the "app store" and can install or delete any "apps" they want, plus can send a device a tailored update that does what they want and it will automatically be installed overnight or intentionally even immediately - meaning that if iOS didn't have any backdoors, apple can add them any time.
     
     The same is true for mac os.
     
     apple pretends to give the user the option of installing an update or not, but if they want it installed, they're going to get it installed.
     
     
     google has a remote backdoor into almost every Android device via the google played store and can install or delete any apk's they want, or update the system root TLS certificates to any they want and as for google's own devices, they can put whatever they want into an "update" and probably force-install it.
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     Lykanthrocide (lykanthrocide@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 01:26:38 JST Lykanthrocide

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     @Suiseiseki I wonder if Apple and Google can do the same thing to Macs and Android systems