good call. if they're asking for photoID I will stop recommending them

depending on your use case, check out privacy.com

they offer digital cards that act as proxies to your bank. if there's ever a vendor breach, payment information on you is not the same between any two vendors. you can limit your cards to single-use, merchant locked, and set spend limits.

this service is not anonymous as they need your bank details.

yep. i'm the target customer for this vehicle, and idk if I'll be getting it. when I was originally thinking about buying it the economy was doing fine. not great, but I was/am fortunate enough that i could spend $20k on an enthusiast car that I'd use as my commuter.

now, I'm thinking a shite $5k Prius could accomplish everything I need.

I still have to make up my mind, but right now (speaking for myself) that money can be put in a lot of better places.

so does mine. I share your doubts, because I believe at the end of the day these systems are built to help public officials evade accountability.

its so much easier for a private company to fuck up and fine them for it(aka, cost of doing business) than any of the historical alternatives that pin accountability on our public institutions.

Ah, the researchers finally got around to playing Expedition 33 huh?

Jokes aside, isn't this also a phenomenon with finishing books and TV shows?

clone, star, fork. we can all help out.

almost like its not about security

this is shockingly ambitious from the flipper team. wow.

I don't have experience with ARM development, but IMO that seems like the field that would benefit the most from this project. its also where I see the most pushback occurring.

very happy they're opening this up. they built a good community with the first flipper, I'm sure there are tons of qualified people willing to contribute to this one.

Debian users should receive their news 6-12 months after everyone else, change my mind

/s

yes, iirc phones still advertise periodically. best to switch it off when not in use.

makes sense that they'd remove it from their forums if it has nothing to do with graphene. not a single point relevant to the OS

this is the dark theme variant

harder to sell our data if just anyone can waltz in and steal it

i only did a quick readthrough so my understanding of how it works is probably flawed. that said:

you could consider split-tunneling a browser outside of your normal stack for fauxx to pollute. that way your real activity remains as close to "ghost" as possible, and gives your device a fake fingerprint that will fool anyone not directly targeting you.

the reason I'd suggest doing it that way is that nobody's personal device hygiene is perfect. flooding with synthetic data is a great way to help conceal when you slip up.

I'll back you on this.

A few years ago, most of my privacy effort was focused on removing myself from increasing restrictions online. Even this last year, there's been a concerted, worldwide push towards censorship and removing anonymity online.

That is dangerous, and left unchecked, leads to a future where anonymity is illegal.

Now, the majority of my effort focuses on privacy advocacy and showing up to city hall meetings to pester council members about this stuff. If we don't do this, they will continue to erode our rights, because there is no pushback to it.

Privacy is political, and removing relevant discussion helps nobody.

my repos are NOT going to make their code less sloppy let me tell you

https://wormhole.app/ sounds like it could fit

https://localsend.org/ for when you meet up

you're kind of giving me a blank slate to talk here so let me hit the biggest point that is tangential to this conversation.

the easiest point for me to make is that if, on your phone, you bought your SIM card (and attached phone number) with payment info that can be tracked to your bank and your real name, your location is compromised whenever that card is online. this is something that the vast majority of privacy enthusiasts either neglect due to lack of knowledge, or cannot afford to remove from their threat profile due to the pervasiveness of cell networks in day to day life.

The most recent example i can give of this being necessary to consider in your privacy posture: In the US, ICE is using this combination of personal information and compromised locations to focus their efforts in neighborhoods with a primarily minority population.

This is kind of like asking which drug is better to overdose on ;)

That said, in this scenario I'd recommend a Pixel, that way only one company is spying on you, since the stock android experience is kept 'minimal'. Samsung will bloat the device.

Stock Android will also give you a fantastic jumping-off point if you want to get into something more privacy focused down the line, like GrapheneOS

might I recommend topgrade to you in these trying times?

https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade