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France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people (gazettengr.com)

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A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I don't know that part would have made much difference, they were already air gapped and the NSA probably could have figured out just about any centrifuge: The hard part was delivering the payload, which was apparently delivered via a rubber ducky left in a parking lot.

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