• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      I think this will be the model for future global conferences and events … host them in totalitarian countries where protesting will either be very hard or impossible.

      Not that we had much democracy left in the western world … the worse the world becomes, the more extreme our governments will react.

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        2 years ago

        Yup, sounds about right. Plus less tolerance
        of freedom of assembly, and civil disobedience in major Western democracies will continue.

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    2 years ago

    They targeted him via his phone using Pegasus, a tool made and sold by the NSO, under direct authority of Israel.

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      A phone is such an essential part of getting things done today. If someone asked me to unlock my phone and then they took the data, I’d be so fucked. But at the same time, I can’t really go overseas without it unless I get someone to house-sit.

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        2 years ago

        At the minimum, you should factory reset when crossing borders, and restore from an encrypted cloud backup. But the advice he gives is to use an entirely new phone (new number, new IMEI).

        He was picked up because his phone number was on a list.