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Artemis_Mystique
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India’s new tax law raids your cloud

The 2025 Act arms tax officers with sweeping powers to crack open passwords, sweep digital lives, and hide their reasons from scrutiny.

^{Apar Gupta (Internet Freedom Foundation)}

#privacy

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FurryMemesAccount

in reply to Artemis_Mystique • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

We all need to rise up and fight this.

Later will be too late.

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Autonomous User

in reply to FurryMemesAccount • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Start with the easy stuff. Get those around you off WhatsApp and Discord.

like this

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sunzu2

in reply to Autonomous User • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

tellling a normie to quit using spyware.... might as well call his mother a whore while at it.

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Autonomous User

in reply to sunzu2 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Skill issue. If you can't fix this, how will you ever fix that?

See part 1: lemmy.world/post/35312231

Autonomous User

2025-09-01 20:35:34

Classic tech disinformation and my battle-tested counterattack cheat sheet (work in progress)

Privacy is multiplayer. So, we must spread it.
To do well, we must fight efficiently.
We cannot waste our lives writing a custom essay against every troll, disinformer and psyop agent.
Short, simple and focused response is vital.
Here is what works for me:
> I do not care about privacy
Agreed. We do not control X, scam. Why should we let it abuse us?
Agreed. X is not libre software, we do not control it, scam. Why should we let it abuse us?
Agreed. X fails to include a libre software license text file, we do not control it, scam. Why should we let it abuse us?
> Open source ...
'Open source' misses the point of libre software, by design.
'Open source' is a blatantly backdoored phrase, engineered to neutralise libre software.
> Developers [owners] [of anti-libre software] need [to make money] to eat.
You are not entitled to infect our devices and hijack control over our computing.
Selling libre software is good.
> You must read all its source code to guarantee it is safe.
Blatant lie, classic disinformation, who told you to read it alone? lmao
When it bans us from forking it, we do not control it, guaranteed. lmao
> Crypto [currency] ...
Truth nuke, the biggest scam ever made is the $
Cash will never be more safe or private than 12 words in my head.

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sunzu2

in reply to Autonomous User • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

They have to come around it themselves.

I just plant seed, they come back once they are ready to have the adult discussion.

it took years to move my friends into privacy focused product. with each new fiasco one or two would reach out.

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Autonomous User

in reply to sunzu2 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

This is the way. Make a post. It would help a lot of people.

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someacnt

in reply to Autonomous User • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Do you really think it is feasible to convert people to less convenient alternative? What are you going to do, force them at a gunpoint?

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Autonomous User

in reply to someacnt • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

What are you going to do

I've already done it and I never needed force.

An app is never convenient when we do not control it.

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bergetfew

in reply to Autonomous User • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Even if we get people to shift to privacy respecting or encrypted apps, the problem still stands. They could just ask you to give access to those services. If you don't, it would come with its own legal challenges.

Section 247(1)(ii)–(iii) mandates individuals and businesses to disclose passwords or encryption keys and permits officers to “override the access control” of any device or account. If you don’t hand over your phone passcode or email password on demand, officials can hack into the device. Any refusal is now explicitly punishable as non-compliance.
End-to-end encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp or Signal could be forced open during a tax raid.

Solving the issue would need to come from challenging the act itself.

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Autonomous User

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They won't know what we're using.

If you can't challenge a few apps, you'll never challenge that.

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Artemis_Mystique

in reply to bergetfew • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

If you scroll down the article you would see that the select committee is shutting down any requests for change with the same set of arguments. The recourse might be to challenge the act in court but that seems unlikely, The public wont really do anything about it, because in their view it doesn't affect them; they fail to see(and are veiled from seeing) the highly probable misuse angle of such far reaching legislation.

Bottom line: As long as you don't touch the street dogs you can get away with anything

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