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What's the risk of honey pot apps? (lemmygrad.ml)
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Given the amount of radical leftists using Lemmy, what's the risk that certain intelligence agencies create nice apps for Lemmy and put them on the app store to gather data on leftists?

It would be fairly cheap to do so.

I was looking for apps earlier today and noticed there's a bunch of new android apps for Lemmy and this thought occurred to me.

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[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They really don't need to, that would be a waste of time and effort. They already have agents in the most decrepit and vile parts of the internet to keep an eye out on the most deranged and potentially dangerous individuals (or those that show any sort of threat).

But they can simply just rely on your ISP information, VPN information, direct information from you phone, your texts, your calls, and so on. All of which are things they already have access to.