168 karma · joined October 31, 2023
Yep. And there is a special vertical prong keeper tab on some trousers for exactly this purpose.
Nothing happens out of the blue. People don't get searched randomly except some rare places where an iPhone is the source of danger itself being a valuable possession.
If someone feels that such events could happen it is mandatory to do OPSEC. If not, bad for this someone. Anyway, a proper torture will reveal the password in a "not so democratic country". Which also happens in the real life.
He is just trying to piggyback an another distribution channel to get more visibility and another place to be found. It has nothing to do with UX.
And a sensitive device should not be easily discoverable to gatekeep who can actually send anything to it. This is also renders it unusable for day to day family tasks.
Just discovered the bloody AI prompt builder enabled by default in my mouse driver today. After patiently declining input recording permission for months.
Managed to get rid of the most of bloatware using their corporate "Offline" version which supposedly doesn't phone home and doesn't ask for extra permissions. YMMV.
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