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White House reveals new app after cryptic posts: Full list of features

https://lemmy.world/post/44838903

White House reveals new app after cryptic posts: Full list of features - Lemmy.World

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Mar 27 at 9:42pmWeb
Show threadreturn2ozmaMar 27
Show threadZakMar 27
An app that could be a website and wants a huge intrusive set of permissions? So just like every corporate social media thing ever.
Show threadabbiistabbiiMar 27
Are you surprised
Show threadRed0ctoberMar 27
I’m sorry, but it controls vibration??? Does it make your phone into a sex toy!?
Show threadThePowerOfGeekMar 28
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.
Show threadVanderdeckenscopilotMar 28
“Version 47.0.0”? LOL
Show thread𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘Mar 29
Producing a working-enough vibe coded app takes many iterations.
Show threaddev_nullMar 28

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

Show threadlortyMar 30

“What are we? China?”

Why do they pretend they didn’t create mass surveillance and data collection.

Show threadEpicMuchMar 27
What’s fucking asshole ad network is Newsweek using where their auto play ads have audio enabled? Closed that tab damn quick
Show threadZakMar 27
Do you need a recommendation for an adblocker?
Show threadCosmoNovaMar 28
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.
Show threadproleMar 28
What are these “ads” that you speak of?
Show threadhansoloMar 27

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.

Show threadartyomMar 27

Some thoughts:

  • Its good to have an easily-acessible resource for official govt info
  • However, The White House already has publicly accessible RSS feeds. This does seem to go beyond that with videos and live streams though.
  • This will most certainly be used to spread and give credence to propaganda
  • Given the aptitude of this admin, I give it about a month before its hacked and used to spread false information.
    • Show thread__Lost__Mar 27
  • No need for a hacker there, it will have false information from the start
    • Show threadartyomMar 27
    Yes but just unofficial false information
    Show threadXLEMar 28
    We must consider the possibility it is hacked to spread true information too
    Show threadouRKaoSMar 28
    Someone is going to link their Signal chat to the app, aren’t they…
    Show threadCosmoNovaMar 28
    Honestly? I would expect hackers to actually spread the truth here for once.
    Show threadartyomMar 28
    Could be that too!
    Show threadDoubleDongleMar 28
    Decent chance that when it is hacked, the hackers will actually use it to spread true information.
    Show threadPabloSexcrowbarMar 28
    I wonder if this somehow gets around the requirement that all presidential communication to the public needs to be recorded.
    Show threadDarthPubMar 27
    State media is rolling out
    Show threadLemmyngMar 27
    Can somebody say PROPOGANDA?!
    Show threadSharkAttakMar 27
    *propAPPganda
    Show threadwuffahMar 27
    Can I get a full list of features on the Iran war after all these cryptic posts?
    Show threaddaggermoonMar 27
    Ah, spyware.
    Show threadbagsyMar 28
    yep, there is ZERO chance i’m installing trumps digital herpes on my phone.
    Show threadbackalleycoyoteMar 28
    Trump has never been much for requiring consent, especially when spreading herpes.
    Show threadmic_check_one_twoMar 28
    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.
    Show threadvacuumflowerMar 28
    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.
    Show threadcrystalmerchantMar 28
    Don’t listen to their filtered content! Listen to our filtered content!
    Show threadRimuMar 28
    “this meeting could have been an email” –> “this app could have been a website”
    Show threadkyubMar 28

    reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/…/latest/

    As usual: this can be interpteted as Malware. That said, many apps are like this these days: full oft trackers and way too many permissions. Most people never know or care.

    Report for gov.whitehouse.app 47.0.1

    Known trackers, permissions and informations about this specific version of this application

    εxodus
    Show threadCosmoNovaMar 28
    Ah, the next step of Gleichschaltung.
    Show threadCanigouMar 28
    The Telescreen !
    Telescreen - Wikipedia

    Show threadKatherine 🪴Mar 28

    Anyway; already added to my filterlists:

    https://codeberg.org/pixiekat/filterlists/raw/commit/c01846677f2385430c05d4f46b3cf4430036c7ee/ublacklist/pixies_government_sites_list.txt

    https://codeberg.org/pixiekat/filterlists/raw/commit/c01846677f2385430c05d4f46b3cf4430036c7ee/ublock/pixies_blacklist.txt

    Show threadMonkderVierteMar 28
    Why expires: 12 hours?
    Show threadKatherine 🪴Mar 28
    Because I change it frequently and it’s basically a personal list for me.
    Show threadfox2263Mar 28
    Vibe coded no doubt by smol bols
    Show threadTexas_HangoverMar 28
    Aint no government app ever going on anything I own. I dont care what government it is either.
    Show threadShadowcrawlerMar 28
    Wow the Americans have an official Goebbels app now…
    Show threadSCmSTRMar 28
    Yikes
    Show thread𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘Mar 29

    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.

    Show threadarchitectMar 29
    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.
    Show threadsetVeryLoud(true);Mar 30
    We at least know the second one is true
    Show threadLectralMar 29
    Look at all those fake app ratings and reviews on the Google Play Store. I wonder how much that cost.