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So an interesting intellectual exercise is to try to figure out how you would create a power user toggle that is coercion resistant. The best I've been able to
by rpdillon 1y ago
So an interesting intellectual exercise is to try to figure out how you would create a power user toggle that is coercion resistant. The best I've been able to come up with is a timed lockout that is random in how long it takes to allow you to finally move into power user mode. So like a random value between 1 hour and 24 hours and you say I want to be a power user and then it says you have to wait 3 hours and 27 minutes before you can become a power user. Randomness because a scammer could optimize around a particular time period that was predictable.
Other thoughts on how you could make a coercion resistant power user toggle? I'm very excited that Google's thinking about offering this because it gives me faith that just because I chose to be in a minority, I won't be relegated.
On the flip side, I was so shaken by the original announcement that would kill off F-Droid that I've been very actively looking into building my own mobile device that runs Linux. I purchased the components for a Hackberry Pi that I'm hoping to build in the next couple of months, but knowing that Android won't kill off F-Droid entirely is heartening.
- maxloh 1y agoThat could be done by requiring the use of ADB. Normal users would found it troublesome to setup a phone through command line. To make it even harder, they could also require a verification code from your phone manufacturer, or the package of your device, which makes it impossible to automate the switch into power-user mode.