Russia to enforce location tracking app on all foreigners in Moscow (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
from moe90@feddit.nl to technology@lemmy.world on 23 May 01:46
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Gork@lemm.ee on 23 May 02:16 next collapse

“I lost my phone” is gonna be heard a lot from now on over there.

Then they can say the classic line, “Don’t you all have phones?!”

Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 May 03:59 next collapse

I’m gonna take a wild guess and say losing your phone is probably gonna result in a penalty

throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works on 23 May 04:25 next collapse

That’s as good as saying “I lost my Driver’s License” after you get pulled over.

jaybone@lemmy.zip on 23 May 08:01 collapse

But they can look that up.

They can’t look up your whereabouts for the last few hours when your phone has been sitting on the coffee table.

throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works on 23 May 08:08 collapse

They can put it in their records. If you “forget” too often, they’ll just assume you’re intentionally doing it and throw you in jail.

random_character_a@lemmy.world on 23 May 04:46 next collapse

Then you’ll get 4kg ankle monitor with 200$ deposit, which you’ll never get back, even if you return it. Complaints will be handled by spending undetermined time in a government “resort” with fun quarry themed activities.

Ruskies have this all this figured out.

echodot@feddit.uk on 23 May 05:56 collapse

Surely the pro play would be simply not to go to Russia in the first place. Thinking about it that was always the pro play.

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de on 23 May 02:27 next collapse

Why do they need an app instead of just using cell tower data? I guess you just take a flip phone then.

throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works on 23 May 04:29 collapse

Apps are easier, and they can design the app so they they query a list of all your other apps. They’ll know if you used any encrypted messaging apps, so later they know to search your chat logs and you cannot have plausible deniability, since they’ll know which exact apps you used (unless you use a second phone for your encrypted messaging apps).

If they make it mandatory, using a flip phone is gonna be breaking the law.

Edit:

Article says:

Using a mobile application that all foreigners will have to install on their smartphones, the Russian state will receive the following information:

  • Residence location
  • Fingerprint
  • Face photograph
  • Real-time geo-location monitoring

I think they are trying to verify that you actually have your phone with you, not just handing it to someone else and then sneak into a protest to create an alibi.

I speculate they will eventually randonly ping your phone and you’re expected to tap the notification to verify you are indeed the person holding the phone via facial recognition. Like a “check-in” with a probation officer type of thing.

Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee on 23 May 04:54 next collapse

How would they gain your fingerprint? I didn’t think iOS or Android actually passed that on to apps I thought the OS handled biometric authentication and just informed the app that the fingerprint matched?

echodot@feddit.uk on 23 May 05:58 next collapse

Yes but the fingerprint wouldn’t match would it so they don’t actually have to see your fingerprint they just need to get the error back from the phone OS

TieDyePie@lemmy.world on 23 May 06:45 collapse

Nothing stopping an exta fingerprint being registered though…

throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works on 23 May 07:43 collapse

Changing the database of fingerprints can, if the app is properly configured, erase any “unlock token” stored on the phone.

I just tested this with KeepassDX on android. I deleted and re-added a fingerprint, the database that I had a fingerprint setup had relocked itself requiring the full password to be typed.

TieDyePie@lemmy.world on 23 May 11:43 collapse

Interesting, didn’t know that. Do you think that different enough from a timeout / reboot requirement of code? Could the app tell?

Litebit@lemmy.world on 23 May 07:46 next collapse

zero day exploits?

logan_hero@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 May 10:25 collapse

Looking original in telegram:

Tap for spoiler

“Предложенной депутатами поправкой для иностранных граждан вводится: 📍 обязательная регистрация по месту нахождения; 📍 дактилоскопия; 📍 биометрическое фотографирование; 📍 мониторинг геолокации абонентских устройств.” Or “The amendment proposed by the deputies introduces for foreign citizens: 📍 mandatory registration at the place of residence; 📍 fingerprinting; 📍 biometric photography; 📍 monitoring of the geolocation of subscriber devices.”

it will just be collected throught immigration police not just throught the app.

slaacaa@lemmy.world on 23 May 09:00 collapse

Holy shit, this is insane. No sane person would put up with this

macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world on 23 May 02:28 next collapse

Unless they have a Windows 10 app, that won’t work for me.

TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world on 23 May 02:37 next collapse

attaches tracking device to feral dog

jaybone@lemmy.zip on 23 May 08:06 collapse

Don’t they have a bunch of dogs in Moscow that like take the subway and shit?

TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world on 23 May 17:04 collapse

Even better, the feral dogs are commuting too. chef’s kiss

jaybone@lemmy.zip on 23 May 18:22 collapse

Decent cover. “Well, this guy commutes to the dumpster behind the butcher shop every day…”

throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works on 23 May 04:31 next collapse

Coming soon to USA in like a few months 👀

Ledericas@lemm.ee on 23 May 04:38 collapse

trump does get alot of ideas from putin.

Ledericas@lemm.ee on 23 May 04:37 next collapse

people sitll going to russia?

throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works on 23 May 05:11 next collapse

Usual visitors are USA’s GOP, France’s RN, Germany’s AfD, etc…

echodot@feddit.uk on 23 May 05:55 collapse

We need to wait until we’re all there at once, and then decide that air travel out of Russia is too much of an international threat, and ban it. They can have a long and informative drive across half of rural Russia in order to get back.

Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 23 May 08:34 next collapse

A lot of people from Middle Asia come there for seasonal work (mainly construction and farming). For migrants its good money, for russia it was kind of necessary before the war because of Russia’s aging population, and essential after the war. Like, it will collapse industries if migrants stop coming.

So its strange that putin&co keep stoking xenophobia. Though, when did economic sense stopped a fascist from doing fascism.

raltoid@lemmy.world on 23 May 08:39 collapse

Yes, but it’s basically just some former soviet states and China that visit in noticable numbers.

slaacaa@lemmy.world on 23 May 06:11 next collapse

It’s incredible how Putin was able to turn Russia’s image from “occasionally drunk, but beloved funny uncle” to “scumbag murderer rapist” in a bit more than a decade.

It has always been a sketchy place, but they at least kept an okay image up, and a lot of people in the cities enjoyed a significant quality of life increase since the 2000s. I have some Russian colleagues who fled before/after the war, and I see their sorrow as they see the horror Russia is doing to Ukraine and its own citizens. You cannot choose where you are born, and they are sad to see the decline of the country they grew up in.

philpo@feddit.org on 23 May 08:01 next collapse

The war started in 2014 but somehow half of Europe and all of the US forgot.

Not to mention what happened in Georgia. Or what happened in Chechnya.

Or with people living in Moscow just because Putler wanted to start a war. Or journalists.

Sorry,but Russia never was a beloved uncle. Russia was always the “shady, violent, uncle who can’t keep his hand off his kids but everyone ignores that because some family image they need to uphold and furthermore while he is quite poor he makes great gifts to the rest of the family. So everyone tolerates him.”

slaacaa@lemmy.world on 23 May 08:48 next collapse

That’s why I was specifically talking about image

KumaSudosa@feddit.dk on 23 May 08:57 collapse

Russia had some kind of chance during the wild 90s, before Putin and his fellow chekists retook all control. In some ways the West should’ve had a different approach to Russia during this period of time and in the early 00s. Not that anyone or anything but Russian pride and megalomania, and Putin’s ambitions, are to blame for the current situation. At this point Russia has to be defeated and their overblown self-understanding changed.

Russia was kind of the drunk uncle before Putin’s intensification, filled with vodka drinking bear wrestlers, insane driving, and comrade jokes. This personified especially in Jeltsin’s behaviour

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 23 May 16:23 collapse

Germany was too busy making money 🤡

KumaSudosa@feddit.dk on 23 May 20:53 collapse

And Russia spent 40 years violently oppressing east Germans - and every one else around them for the past five decades. Essentially Russians are like chihuahuas

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 23 May 20:55 collapse

And you would think east germans would learn a lesson but instead they are Russian base within germany lol

culture of bootlicking strikes again.

KumaSudosa@feddit.dk on 23 May 21:05 collapse

People are stupid. Never gonna argue against that

oakward@feddit.org on 23 May 08:27 collapse

Yep. This was the image we had from the Russians. A bit odd and drunk but reasonable people. All gone

youtu.be/PuQD1jgG9oQ

sparky@lemmy.federate.cc on 23 May 09:03 next collapse

Seems like the app stores could derail this by simply not approving the app outside of Russia, which would fall outside of Russia’s jurisdiction to do anything about.

ohshit604@sh.itjust.works on 23 May 18:42 collapse

or… better yet, not agree to the Russia’s terms and prevent the app outright?

sparky@lemmy.federate.cc on 23 May 23:14 collapse

That’s kinda my point. Even if Russia tries to order them to make it available, they can’t do so except to Russian users, which defeats the purpose.

[deleted] on 23 May 09:38 collapse

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vxx@lemmy.world on 23 May 09:54 collapse

It’s nl not ml

NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml on 23 May 09:57 collapse

even worse, it’s .world.

K1nsey6@lemmy.world on 23 May 14:36 collapse

The .world crowd is seriously the worst

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 23 May 16:22 collapse

.world is just same regime front as reddit