larma

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by larma 10y ago
Is GNU compatible and thus can run on all platforms (e.g. Windows via MinGW). Some features might require special handling for Windows / OS X (GPG, Audio/Video) and Linux is for now the "official" target platform...
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by larma 10y ago
Apparently they changed the software used to store the data, in the bottom on https://open.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ it says "powered by dkan", on https://open.whitehouse.gov/ it says "po
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by larma 10y ago
> someone controlled by Google Manufacturers that ship GMS are not controlled by Google. I think you don't know a lot about how to apply for GMS integration, it's as easy as filling a form and passing the CTS (compatibility tes
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by larma 10y ago
Signal is told to be a secure crypto messenger everyone can use. This means that people are installing it on a usual Android device and assume that nobody is able to read their messages without physical access. Of course you are right, ther
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by larma 10y ago
On Pixel and Nexus, yes. for every other device it would require coop with the device manufacturer: they build the open-source code (+ their own proprietary extensions), add google apps and libraries (that are sandboxed) and sign the build.
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by larma 10y ago
No, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13435152
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by larma 10y ago
Even with stock Android, on devices != Pixel or Nexus, Google parts are sandboxed in a way making it hard for them to access private app data. The only way would be to deliver a different app through play store which is easy to discover as
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by larma 10y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OSLZXIu... works for me (better use text only version as Google tries to load css from the server apparently)
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About backdoors in crypto messengers(blogs.fsfe.org)
71 points by larma 10y ago|68 comments
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About backdoors in crypto messengers(blogs.fsfe.org)
6 points by larma 10y ago|1 comments
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by larma 10y ago
Cyanogen OS was not free, neither was CyanogenMod. The Fairphone 2 has an official, monthly updated system that is mostly (beside firmware and other Qualcomm shit) free software. You can install it optionally, search for Fairphone Open OS.
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How to (not) contact OpenWhisperSystems about security issues?(blogs.fsfe.org)
4 points by larma 10y ago|0 comments
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by larma 10y ago
The document package contained a document not available to the NSA commission but to some foreign affairs commission. Only very few people have access to documents of both commissions. The more interesting part is: this leak was completely
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European Commission vs. post-truth Google(blogs.fsfe.org)
13 points by larma 10y ago|0 comments
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by larma 10y ago
already there and heavily relying on EU software directive 2009/24/EC :)
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by larma 10y ago
This is not entirely correct. Google has no possibility to break things in short time if they work exactly like the Google implementation. Although Google can update their clients through automatic updates there are still devices only conne
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by larma 10y ago
He is talking about the possibility to build AOSP without certain propriatry (native) libraries that are used to communicate with the device components. While you always need them at runtime for a lot of features (but some devices run in wi