A grassroots network of apps, text threads and forums are sharing real-time ICE location data. The Trump administration says that’s illegal, Alex Woodward reports

Official site: https://www.iceblock.app/

The CNN article talks a bit more about privacy issues. This bit caught my eye:

It’s only available on iOS because Aaron says the app would have to collect information that could ultimately put users at risk to provide the same experience on Android.

I would like to see some details about this. Perhaps there’s a way to work around that problem, even if it meant publishing on F-Droid instead of Google Play.

  • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    22 hours ago

    Once you need a normal server you might as well just have the server you already need serve the info preferably simply by grabbing a diff from previously so you reveal no info and without downloading a substantial portion of a chain. I swear people want to shove a blockchain into shit when it almost never adds any value whatsoever. You didn’t address the fact about making an indelible link between you and your report and indeed prior reports if you are ever nabbed.

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
      4·
      20 hours ago

      You wanna go to jail hosting that server? You want to be extradited from another partnering country to the USA for inciting violence? For accessory to murder if something went wrong?

      How is the link indelible when it’s anonymous? This isn’t money that can be traced back to you once it goes through Tornado Cash, or if it was done on something like Monero.

      Edit:

      https://www.yahoo.com/news/attorney-general-pam-bondi-warns-092112825.html

      “Our ICE agents, all of our federal agents who are working hand in hand on these task force[s] — our federal agents from the Justice Department could be injured,” Bondi said Monday on “Hannity.”

      “He’s giving a message to criminals where our federal officers are. And he cannot do that. And we are looking at it, we are looking at him, and he better watch out, because that’s not a protected speech. That is threatening the lives of our law enforcement officers throughout this country.”

      This dudes life might be fucked now.

      But sure, no reason, just trying to shove blockchain into everything.

      • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        A block chain is a distributed permanent ledger of transactions where any intermediary who claims to provide anonymity is in danger of being compromised and turning instantly into a Honey pot

        • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 hours ago

          Tornado Cash is a smart contract. It’s not anything that can be compromised. It’s code. It’s cryptography. Its immutable and can never be altered.

          It’s unstoppable short of making using it against the law, and the US government tried that, and lost their court case.

          Edit: Just further clarity - Once you deposit money into it, you get cryptographically signed response that says you have the right to withdraw that much money, but the response has no link to you. The money you get back is mixed with millions of other peoples money, and you withdraw someone elses money.