• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Security researches have taken apart the binaries, listened to network requests and everything else you need to do to verify that nothing nefarious was going on. The system itself is set up so no tracing is possible if nobody reads your hashes.

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      1 year ago

      [Citation needed]

      Every reverse-engineering study I’ve read has been about the apps built in top of the Google API, not the Google binaries. Here’s one, and here’s another, and neither paints a flattering picture.

      Maybe it’s possible to build a perfect implementation, but that is not what we got.

      You know what does work? Masks and vaccines. Phone-based tracking was a dangerous waste of time.

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        Maybe it’s possible to build a perfect implementation, but that is not what we got.

        What exactly are you referring to? The whole approach is built in a way that doesn’t really give anyone any way to screw things up. Please be specific.

        You know what does work? Masks and vaccines. Phone-based tracking was a dangerous waste of time.

        Unless you were testing yourself literally every day, phone-based tracking is a great way to tell you when you should test yourself. It’s a great addition to other preventative measures, and I have no idea how you could come to this conclusion while thinking rationally about this topic.