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Re: ID cards and migrant motivations
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2025 5:52 pm
by Gfamily
Grumble wrote: Wed Oct 08, 2025 5:39 pm
IvanV wrote: Tue Oct 07, 2025 4:14 pm
We seem to be arriving in a condition where it close to compulsory to own a smartphone of recent operating system.
A nephew of mine is a musician in the army. He was reprimanded recently for being late. Apparently event notices were sent out via WhatsApp and he doesn’t have a smartphone.
Of course, smartphones can leak data - including
militarily sensitive data
Re: ID cards and migrant motivations
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2025 6:07 pm
by Grumble
Gfamily wrote: Wed Oct 08, 2025 5:52 pm
Grumble wrote: Wed Oct 08, 2025 5:39 pm
IvanV wrote: Tue Oct 07, 2025 4:14 pm
We seem to be arriving in a condition where it close to compulsory to own a smartphone of recent operating system.
A nephew of mine is a musician in the army. He was reprimanded recently for being late. Apparently event notices were sent out via WhatsApp and he doesn’t have a smartphone.
Of course, smartphones can leak data - including
militarily sensitive data
And when it’s compulsory for soldiers to have a smartphone you can see why
Re: ID cards and migrant motivations
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2025 7:18 am
by shpalman
Gfamily wrote: Wed Oct 08, 2025 5:52 pm
Grumble wrote: Wed Oct 08, 2025 5:39 pm
IvanV wrote: Tue Oct 07, 2025 4:14 pm
We seem to be arriving in a condition where it close to compulsory to own a smartphone of recent operating system.
A nephew of mine is a musician in the army. He was reprimanded recently for being late. Apparently event notices were sent out via WhatsApp and he doesn’t have a smartphone.
Of course, smartphones can leak data - including
militarily sensitive data
That's not "leaking" data that's people enabling the location sharing feature when they shouldn't.
Re: ID cards and migrant motivations
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2025 8:42 am
by nekomatic
The history of preventing things from going wrong by saying ‘well people must just not do the wrong thing then’ is not a particularly distinguished one.
Re: ID cards and migrant motivations
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2025 5:55 am
by jimbob
shpalman wrote: Thu Oct 09, 2025 7:18 am
Gfamily wrote: Wed Oct 08, 2025 5:52 pm
Grumble wrote: Wed Oct 08, 2025 5:39 pm
A nephew of mine is a musician in the army. He was reprimanded recently for being late. Apparently event notices were sent out via WhatsApp and he doesn’t have a smartphone.
Of course, smartphones can leak data - including
militarily sensitive data
That's not "leaking" data that's people enabling the location sharing feature when they shouldn't.
True, but they
are also leaking data. In multiple ways. Some by poor security by users, some inherent to their functioning (eg which cellphone tower they are connected to - as has happened in Ukraine)