Aachen

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by Aachen 8mo ago
That depends on (1) which one you pick and (2) whether you keep the stock OS Given that there exist vendors like Fairphone/Murena that sell lower-performant hardware at much lower price points, it seems to me that the expensive but dec
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by Aachen 8mo ago
Certainly not, but there's more goals than singular security from government agents at all cost With the current mobile OS landscape, getting away from ubiquitous overseas dependencies, constant tracking, and closed-source mandatory ap
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by Aachen 8mo ago
My phone isn't my email server though? It's not exposed to the public internet. It connects outwards but you can't simply connect inwards to the IMAP client You can invert your logic as well: Why care about security without p
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by Aachen 8mo ago
You're linking to Google Play's documentation, not Android code itself that GrapheneOS etc. are built upon You can find hardware identifiers exposed by Linux distributions more than by Android itself. That Google adds a nice sauce
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by Aachen 8mo ago
I take that point, that's a useful thing to do. Not sure that many people even in threads like these will get it unless explained (at which point you might as well word around it) but on a close forum or chat this is definitely a usefu
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by Aachen 8mo ago
Could work. How do you know what the least-frequently used key is if you can't store them, though? Would need some heuristics. Maybe it could write the first five keys it sees after power on on every power on, or some other useful heur
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by Aachen 8mo ago
Nice initiative! Was hoping the "play" button/link would go to a playable version though
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by Aachen 8mo ago
I am not a chip designer but from my limited understanding, this "somewhere" is the problem. You can have secret memory somewhere that isn't noticed by analysts, but can it remain secret if it is as big as half the cpu? A qua
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by Aachen 8mo ago
That seems wrong. If malware can fake what the authenticator shows me, the authenticator is broken! It doesn't matter what device relays the code I typed over or otherwise transmits the approval through untrusted networks to the server
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by Aachen 8mo ago
Yeah, I should have pursued the idea ten years ago of making a usable 2fa hardware device (that confirms what you're authenticating and an attacker can't simply pull auth codes for whatever they want) Still, I'm plenty okay w
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by Aachen 8mo ago
That's like saying Tulip blocked the installation of Vista because they didn't install enough RAM to run it The OS makers don't have to go out of their way to support a device they don't want to (that's the beauty
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by Aachen 8mo ago
That being?
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by Aachen 8mo ago
Thank you! Double s in the middle was the fix I see :)
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by Aachen 8mo ago
Try a social media that is not antisocial. HN, Mastodon, Tildes, various forums... lots of communities and tech content are available in browsers or via open source apps I'm not aware of any that bans you when not using an allowlisted
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by Aachen 8mo ago
If you're tech-literate enough to find the bootloader unlock, I find that a strange statement. Could $colleague be anymore specific?
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by Aachen 8mo ago
No, I also click away articles in that font style if it's not exceptionally interesting or relevant to me In this case, reader mode fixes it (your browser probably has a button built in)
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by Aachen 8mo ago
Interesting, so any security patches to kernel level and above (AOSP code, browsers, other apps) can still be fully up-to-date when the manufacturer says a device is out of support. Not sure I understand the fuss then that Fairphone had abo
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by Aachen 8mo ago
Not sure if I'm understanding you right, but I wasn't saying that my experience is the only one that matters. Just that it's not a thing one notices in practice, at least not under conditions I've experienced (I figure a
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by Aachen 8mo ago
Answered 2h ago before your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047720 Saving a click, it looks like any bare Android without vendor customisations. You just get extra settings like turning off network per app I
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by Aachen 8mo ago
Huh, and here I thought Google was one of the few manufacturers left that simply support it on their hardware. So it depends on some cloud service being alive. Do you know if it's the same for Fairphone or Shiftphone? Or is there anoth
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by Aachen 8mo ago
You're not the first to notice! It's called the network effect
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by Aachen 8mo ago
Maybe an old Pixel with an old version of GrapheneOS, but at that point you're losing most of the security benefits and, depending on your goals, you may be better served with a small phone running a different OS
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by Aachen 8mo ago
If I knew what a cheque even looks like, that might be a benefit
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by Aachen 8mo ago
Definitely one of the best features to have this in the native UI, though it's also possible in other ways If anyone wants this without GrapheneOS: https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.ukanth.ufirewall If anyone wants
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by Aachen 8mo ago
I would love if there were a different OS name to designate "Android phones with Google Services snooping in the background" but with the Android Open Source Project being called what it is, I fear "Android" will continu
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by Aachen 8mo ago
Read the rest of the thread here. The blanket statement is a bit short-sighted (some people might even say 'vastly')
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by Aachen 8mo ago
I assume this is all technically correct, but in practice I've not noticed any speed difference between stock Pixel and GrapheneOS. Maybe their Vanadium browser when tab switching, that feels slow, but I wasn't planning on being p
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by Aachen 8mo ago
What advertising ID is built into the OS?
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by Aachen 8mo ago
> I think it's more of a marketing claim from less secure systems that "privacy is not security I'm not sure Cyanogenmod had a marketing team that convinced me of anything when I first installed their rom in 2013 and explo
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by Aachen 8mo ago
I'm also not involved with any mobile privacy/security project, unless OpenStreetMap data and self-hosting can be said to be such > GOS does care a lot about security, has a higher quality in that regard than anything else, and

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