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TLDR: Drug dealers in Catalonia have started to adopt GrapheneOS en masse leading to Catalan police suspecting anyone with a Google Pixel is a drug dealer

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

The police: 'We've encountered a difficulty with our paid spying software. Welp it must be just the criminals.'

Edit: Missed the R and hit the T on our.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

pretty much. The original article says that if they have a pixel they have to ask for a warrant

[–] pineapplelover 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This implies searching other phones don't require warrants?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes. Yes it does.

Or more accurately, they can't search your phone without you knowing with GrapheneOS, so they have to get a judge to force you to willing unlock it.

[–] pineapplelover 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So they follow the laws only on GrapheneOS users. Iirc other up to date phones are also hard to crack especially if it's on first unlock

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't really know. I operate under the assumption that my phone is always a piece of spyware and minimize what's actually on it or what it can hear.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You are a smart person. We need more people like you.

[–] pineapplelover 2 points 1 day ago

Same here and I use grapheneos.

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