ranger_danger

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by ranger_danger 5y ago
you can: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29024994
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by ranger_danger 5y ago
they're probably implying it was a sort of warrant canary or that they did not comply with overreaching government wiretap requests (the assumption being that now they do).
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by ranger_danger 5y ago
the baseband radio does, so, yes. also the camera and mic in many cases.
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by ranger_danger 5y ago
You don't even need a traditional app backdoor to do this. The carrier can just send the message to the baseband radio itself, which has a direct connection to your GPS receiver, among other things (usually) like the camera and microph
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by ranger_danger 5y ago
why do you need WebGL and an AudioContext to click a login button??
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by ranger_danger 5y ago
Because you would have to assume too many things. What if the GUI bring-up required mounting filesystems that need a kernel module that hasn't loaded yet? What if the filesystem is on a network? What if the network isn't up yet? W
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by ranger_danger 5y ago
Sorry but where's the equality in this?
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by ranger_danger 5y ago
Giving the user root access to the phone is one of the worst ideas you could possibly do with regards to security, which is why it's not possible. It's anti-user because the user is a huge source of information leakage and that&#x
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by ranger_danger 5y ago
There's no good out-of-the-box privacy-friendly phone, but you can install a friendly OS on some devices. Besides the article-mentioned /e/OS, there's also CalyxOS and GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS is seen as the top choice for
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by ranger_danger 5y ago
> I propose a method called and orthographic gradient typo
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by ranger_danger 5y ago
The problem is, as a developer trying to fix issues, telemetry can be extremely helpful... but if it's solely opt-in, then virtually nobody will actually use it, and then what's the point.
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by ranger_danger 5y ago
Just include that header in a separate C/C++ file that has no other purpose, then you won't have to recompile it every time you change something elsewhere.
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by ranger_danger 5y ago
OpenBSD is not really as secure as people make it out to be: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/openbsd.html And plenty of other OSes have FDE and everything in-between.
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by ranger_danger 5y ago
But there's hundreds of decompiled copies of Super Mario 64 on github and have been for years. Where's their court cases?
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by ranger_danger 5y ago
And nowhere near the security of even stock Android, unfortunately. Every app is free to spy on everything else on the system, just like most desktops.
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by ranger_danger 5y ago
How is this license merely "source available" ? After reading it it sounds extremely permissive. For example: > The licensor grants you a copyright license for the software to do everything you might do with the software that w