It was a feature specifically requested by Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski for their government airplane sexy times. And the developer forgot to remove it.
I honestly have stopped caring about this particular kind of spyware. Too obvious to be a really important part of life's fabric. More interested in easter eggs that persist over decades and nobody sees them because their essence is architectural. And exists from conception of a system till its death.
As usual: this can be interpteted as Malware.
That said, many apps are like this these days: full of trackers and way too many permissions. Most people never know or care.
Mildly interesting: one of.the trackers seems to be related to Huawei.
I genuinely look forward to seeing what the conspiracy folks have to say about this. They were already spun up about this being a final declaration of nuclear war. Such womp womp.
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return2ozma@lemmy.world · 116 pts · 137d
Zak@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 137d
An app that could be a website and wants a huge intrusive set of permissions? So just like every corporate social media thing ever.
Vanderdeckenscopilot@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 137d
"Version 47.0.0"? LOL
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 135d
Producing a working-enough vibe coded app takes many iterations.
Red0ctober@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 137d
I'm sorry, but it controls vibration??? Does it make your phone into a sex toy!?
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 137d
It was a feature specifically requested by Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski for their government airplane sexy times. And the developer forgot to remove it.
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 136d
Legitimate criticism aside, I found it funny they underlined "receive data from internet" among the other scary permissions.
That's the one thing a news app presumably should be doing
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 4 pts · 137d
NOPE
abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 137d
Are you surprised
lorty@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 135d
"What are we? China?"
Why do they pretend they didn't create mass surveillance and data collection.
daggermoon@piefed.world · 62 pts · 137d
Ah, spyware.
bagsy@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 137d
yep, there is ZERO chance i'm installing trumps digital herpes on my phone.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 136d
Trump has never been much for requiring consent, especially when spreading herpes.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 137d
Yup, they somehow managed to bundle obvious spyware and bold-faced propaganda into a single app, and somehow plenty of people seem okay with that.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 136d
I honestly have stopped caring about this particular kind of spyware. Too obvious to be a really important part of life's fabric. More interested in easter eggs that persist over decades and nobody sees them because their essence is architectural. And exists from conception of a system till its death.
artyom@piefed.social · 55 pts · 137d
Some thoughts:
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 77 pts · 137d
artyom@piefed.social · 12 pts · 137d
Yes but just unofficial false information
XLE@piefed.social · 10 pts · 137d
We must consider the possibility it is hacked to spread true information too
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 136d
Someone is going to link their Signal chat to the app, aren't they...
CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 136d
Honestly? I would expect hackers to actually spread the truth here for once.
artyom@piefed.social · 0 pts · 136d
Could be that too!
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 137d
Decent chance that when it is hacked, the hackers will actually use it to spread true information.
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social · 3 pts · 136d
I wonder if this somehow gets around the requirement that all presidential communication to the public needs to be recorded.
EpicMuch@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 137d
What’s fucking asshole ad network is Newsweek using where their auto play video ads have audio enabled? Closed that tab damn quick
Zak@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 137d
Do you need a recommendation for an adblocker?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 136d
What are these "ads" that you speak of?
CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 136d
Reminds me of that time when Instagram went went full short brainrot where sound was always re-enabled or how the Youtube app started it last week.
kyub@discuss.tchncs.de · 27 pts · 136d
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/gov.whitehouse.app/latest/
As usual: this can be interpteted as Malware. That said, many apps are like this these days: full of trackers and way too many permissions. Most people never know or care.
Mildly interesting: one of.the trackers seems to be related to Huawei.
EDIT: Someone decompiled and analyzed the app in detail: https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
rimu@piefed.social · 24 pts · 137d
"this meeting could have been an email" --> "this app could have been a website"
hansolo@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 137d
LOL, this is what they've been teasing?
I genuinely look forward to seeing what the conspiracy folks have to say about this. They were already spun up about this being a final declaration of nuclear war. Such womp womp.
Shadowcrawler@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 136d
DarthPub@retrofed.com · 16 pts · 137d
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 137d
Can somebody say PROPOGANDA?!
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 6 pts · 137d
*propAPPganda
Canigou@jlai.lu · 8 pts · 136d
The Telescreen !
webkitten@piefed.social · 8 pts · 136d
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 136d
Why
expires: 12 hours?webkitten@piefed.social · 2 pts · 136d
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 7 pts · 136d
Aint no government app ever going on anything I own. I dont care what government it is either.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 135d
How much you want to bet that it's 100% vibe coded, tracks your every move, and has full access to all sensors?
Hope I'm wrong.
architect@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 135d
Well at least if it’s vibe coded it’s likely to be wrong about the data, anyways, while they are too stupid to retrieve it.
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 134d
We at least know the second one is true
fox2263@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 136d
Vibe coded no doubt by smol bols
wuffah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 137d
Can I get a full list of features on the Iran war after all these cryptic posts?
CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 136d
Ah, the next step of Gleichschaltung.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 136d
Yikes
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 137d
Don't listen to their filtered content! Listen to our filtered content!
Lectral@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 135d
Look at all those fake app ratings and reviews on the Google Play Store. I wonder how much that cost.