The developer of an iPhone app for sharing sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers has been publicly threatened by the US Attorney General.
The developer chose the correct platform for that then. It’s an apple only app.
His excuse? Android requires him to store databases of user IDs, but Apple does it themselves so it’s more “private”. There are tons of opensource push notification platforms available on Android that you can sideload. But seems like the developer wants the limelight than anything.
The number one thing that makes this app potentially effective is reach. You don’t build a userbase big enough to be worthwhile with a side loaded android app, certainly not in a short period of time.
Even if it wasn’t a honey pot, it IS a honey pot as the DOJ will just subpoena all pushes sent to all devices via it with some lame excuse that the courts will approve.
All the privacy claims were complete BS. Apple will roll over if given a warrant.
Yeye i didnt assume that. Sadly finding matrix related projects is close to impossible in my experience, because the name is so absurdly generic. They really should have gone with something more search engine optimized when they decided to rebrand.
Needs to be distributed. Single points of failure, be them people or tools, are always a mistake.
The developer chose the correct platform for that then. It’s an apple only app.
His excuse? Android requires him to store databases of user IDs, but Apple does it themselves so it’s more “private”. There are tons of opensource push notification platforms available on Android that you can sideload. But seems like the developer wants the limelight than anything.
Also my honeypot senses are tingling.
Everything about this app is mega sus yep. Should have open sourced it then this wouldnt have happened.
The number one thing that makes this app potentially effective is reach. You don’t build a userbase big enough to be worthwhile with a side loaded android app, certainly not in a short period of time.
Even if it wasn’t a honey pot, it IS a honey pot as the DOJ will just subpoena all pushes sent to all devices via it with some lame excuse that the courts will approve.
All the privacy claims were complete BS. Apple will roll over if given a warrant.
Exactly. Making a closed source, iOS-only app when you’re allegedly trying to help the largest number of at-risk people makes no sense…
https://git.fiftyfiftyonearizona.org/webmaster/matrix-report-documentation
Ooh there ya go. I knew there had to be some actually good approaches to this problem :)
To he clear this isnt me. But I am from AZ.
Yeye i didnt assume that. Sadly finding matrix related projects is close to impossible in my experience, because the name is so absurdly generic. They really should have gone with something more search engine optimized when they decided to rebrand.
Unfortunately.
There’s a Microsoft product named Matrix Synapse, which is funny as hell. But you probably knew that.
Do we know when this will potentially be ready?
A week ago or something. This is how I found out about the system: https://fiftyfiftyonearizona.org/2025/06/i-finally-have-a-minimum-viable-product-for-my-ice-reporting-system/