Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.
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Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.
During these searches, the police writes down their phones' unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number to log their real identity and this number in a database. So every time a citizen turns on his phone, the dictatorship then knows which citizen it is, where he is, what he is doing online, and who he is talking to.
This is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.
@randahl Can't say I feel bad for them with what they have been doing to Ukraine for years now.
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@randahl I had to watch the video to know whether this was about Russia or the United States..
@random_sapiens The US already has all that information along with a decades old mass surveillance programme. They'd only do this for the theatrics.
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@random_sapiens The US already has all that information along with a decades old mass surveillance programme. They'd only do this for the theatrics.
@Halaana well it's a lot about theatrics lately...
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Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.
During these searches, the police writes down their phones' unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number to log their real identity and this number in a database. So every time a citizen turns on his phone, the dictatorship then knows which citizen it is, where he is, what he is doing online, and who he is talking to.
This is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.
@randahl wouldn't they already be able to access this info?Assuming people mostly get phones on a contract and not buying phones with cash.
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Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.
During these searches, the police writes down their phones' unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number to log their real identity and this number in a database. So every time a citizen turns on his phone, the dictatorship then knows which citizen it is, where he is, what he is doing online, and who he is talking to.
This is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.
@randahl Putin is frightened and is hunkering down
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Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.
During these searches, the police writes down their phones' unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number to log their real identity and this number in a database. So every time a citizen turns on his phone, the dictatorship then knows which citizen it is, where he is, what he is doing online, and who he is talking to.
This is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.
@randahl, who cares what happens to orcs?
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@randahl, who cares what happens to orcs?
i have 100s of comments hating on the govt of russia, putin, the kremlin
but i'm careful not to demonize regular russians, because yes, while many of them are loser assholes who support the stupid ethnofascist war on ukraine, many are not
and thus, not as some high minded moral principle, but simply as a matter of good tactics and strategy, we don't demonize all russians, simply because if putin is to be overthrown, it will be regular russians doing it
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Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.
During these searches, the police writes down their phones' unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number to log their real identity and this number in a database. So every time a citizen turns on his phone, the dictatorship then knows which citizen it is, where he is, what he is doing online, and who he is talking to.
This is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.
Seems incongruous to decry police-state behavior in a police-state with your face visible. Video looks real but, I wonder.
I can definitely see something like this coming to the USA.
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@randahl
We don't need to do this, because unless you are using a prepaid SIM - and never had a subscription SIM in the same phone, Danish and European authorities already have that information.Did you notice how getting a prepaid SIM became a lot harder a few years ago? I used to have a prepaid SIM that I paid 99,- for per year, and now I'm paying 79,- per month for pretty much the same use, simply because prepaid became too cumbersome.
Russia presumably have a lot more people using prepaid SIMs, so they can't get the information via the phone company.
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Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.
During these searches, the police writes down their phones' unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number to log their real identity and this number in a database. So every time a citizen turns on his phone, the dictatorship then knows which citizen it is, where he is, what he is doing online, and who he is talking to.
This is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.
@randahl Has been for over a hundred years. Putin just managed to make it even worse.
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Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.
During these searches, the police writes down their phones' unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number to log their real identity and this number in a database. So every time a citizen turns on his phone, the dictatorship then knows which citizen it is, where he is, what he is doing online, and who he is talking to.
This is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.
@randahl Are you sure the IMEI can tell them what the phone is doing on the internet? I've never heard that before, and I just looked it up and it doesn't seem to be true. All it can tell them is the phone's location.
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Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.
During these searches, the police writes down their phones' unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number to log their real identity and this number in a database. So every time a citizen turns on his phone, the dictatorship then knows which citizen it is, where he is, what he is doing online, and who he is talking to.
This is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.
@randahl
It's only a different way than in other countries. It happens everywhere.
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Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.
During these searches, the police writes down their phones' unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number to log their real identity and this number in a database. So every time a citizen turns on his phone, the dictatorship then knows which citizen it is, where he is, what he is doing online, and who he is talking to.
This is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.
@randahl the f**k is that? I meant the police or whatever doing that, not the number.
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the IT companies inform the government, for a fee.The whole world is 1984. Idk which country/government is absolutely free for being monitored.
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Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.
During these searches, the police writes down their phones' unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number to log their real identity and this number in a database. So every time a citizen turns on his phone, the dictatorship then knows which citizen it is, where he is, what he is doing online, and who he is talking to.
This is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.
@randahl Серьёзно? Наверное я живу в параллельной вселенной, где ничего подобного не происходит. Но зато в моей вселенной в мирных русских городах гибнут мирные люди от оружия, которое поставляет НАТО террористам. И эта кровь вопиет к небу.
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@randahl the f**k is that? I meant the police or whatever doing that, not the number.
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the IT companies inform the government, for a fee.The whole world is 1984. Idk which country/government is absolutely free for being monitored.
? ?@epistomai Not Denmark, I know that much. We have cameras in the cities and it is illegal to cover your face. Dystopian.
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@randahl
We don't need to do this, because unless you are using a prepaid SIM - and never had a subscription SIM in the same phone, Danish and European authorities already have that information.Did you notice how getting a prepaid SIM became a lot harder a few years ago? I used to have a prepaid SIM that I paid 99,- for per year, and now I'm paying 79,- per month for pretty much the same use, simply because prepaid became too cumbersome.
Russia presumably have a lot more people using prepaid SIMs, so they can't get the information via the phone company.
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Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.
During these searches, the police writes down their phones' unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number to log their real identity and this number in a database. So every time a citizen turns on his phone, the dictatorship then knows which citizen it is, where he is, what he is doing online, and who he is talking to.
This is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.
@randahl There are 1,808,100 prisoners in prisons in the USA and 433,006 in Russia. Thank you for reminding me what demagoguery is.
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Russian Telegram videos now show how ordinary citizens are stopped and having their phones searched.
During these searches, the police writes down their phones' unique International Mobile Equipment Identity number to log their real identity and this number in a database. So every time a citizen turns on his phone, the dictatorship then knows which citizen it is, where he is, what he is doing online, and who he is talking to.
This is not a country. This is the largest prison on earth.
@randahl I'm morbidly curious if this actually means that there are results that data wonks with access to telco-provided data aren't getting them(since there's basically no difference between 'using a cellphone' and 'bleeding metadata to the carrier' and carriers tend to be pretty cooperative in handing over reports); or if the high-touch IMEI gathering is more or less entirely about informing non-nerds that they are indeed being watched.
