Burner phones are a strange concept. If you want to store sensitive data on it, you shouldnt use some cheap android phone or even a dumbphone without encryption support.
All Android phones have Google malware installed by default, as system apps, which means those apps can do whatever they want.
So every piece of data you put on there is possibly tracked and collected.
Then there are 2 more problems
the software is proprietary and cannot be externally wiped clean
the software is outdated
This makes it vulnerable to Pegasus attacks and others. There are tons of secure practices to avoid getting it, like LTE-only, HTTPS only, encrypted and trustworthy DNS, sandboxed processes, blocked javascript execution from unknown websites…
But still if the phone is outdated there are unpatched and publicly known security issues. Just spamming them at all phones is likely to succeed as so many people run vulnerable versions, as vendors suck.
Then if you have pegasus, the only way for security is to reflash the A/B partitions, both. Factory reset is not secure as it will keep what is already in the system partitions.
The firmware is protected and signed by the vendors, so it is likely clean.
But Pegasus installs itself to the phone storage.
If you A cant obtain factory images or B cant flash the phone at all, you cannot wipe it clean.
So a good activism phone needs
trustworthy and minimal system apps / stock software
modern software updates
possible to reflash whole device externally
nice to have: ability to verify checksum of system partition, like GrapheneOS Attestation
This makes them poorly pretty expensive. I think a slightly outdated GrapheneOS phone is okay though.
Xscreensaver has apparently been checking for updates and is disappointed that it hasn't had one for 14 months because Debian is too stable. Can anyone recommend a linux screensaver which would work with xfce and can be trusted to never do that?
I am not using Mint and it is also in the Fedora repos, but there is no reason for it to not be on Flathub. Maybe when I find the time I try to package it.
They had this on their homepage, advertizing QKSMS and Bromite as if they were project apps. Which they are not.
So either A: they preinstall apps as system apps or B: they have some form of installer that installs them as normal user apps.
You should have as many apps as user apps as possible.
Maybe they changes this idk. But QKSMS is not a simple SMS app like the one that GrapheneOS implements (the old and hardly maintained AOSP one) and Bromite is an unmaintained Browser which is a huge problem. Cromite and Quik are maintained forks.
Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?
They only support Ubuntu as downstream Distro, while they preinstall it on their number 1 supported platform, SteamOS. They control the complete software stack and even hardware.
They dont support Arch on whatever hardware, they support SteamOS on the Steamdeck.
Ich warte auf den digitalen Euro. Bisher fast nur Visakarte, einfach weil ich nicht jedes mal durch mehrere Websites gehen muss, die teilweise Redirects benutzen die meine Browser (Librewolf, Mull) blockieren etc.
Only their own specifically. Our economy wants people to only care about themselves. Even though this doesnt make sense as polluting the earth will directly impact you.
Recently installed Mull browser (with ublock origin) but when I try to reach google not secure site page is showed. Tried disabling HTTPS force and strictly privacy settings but nothing change. Any ideas? google is working with other browser so it’s a mull problem only. Thanks
My OS is on a 512gb M.2 drive, but the main storage on my laptop was a 1TB HDD, it started making noise about 2 weeks ago so I backed everything up onto a 1TB SanDisk USB SSD. This afternoon it got very clicky when I booted it up after work and icons for a few games I had stored on it, like KSP and YUZU, disappeared from the...
How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? (themarkup.org)
Simple steps to take before hitting the streets
Linux Mint looks to fork more GNOME Apps because of libAdwaita (blog.linuxmint.com)
4 Tools to Share Large Files Over the Internet Securely (itsfoss.com)
Its a hard fate : ( (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Why the oems resist giving proper drivers for fingerprint😡 lemy.lol/post/24413858
Pixel 8a gets more expensive: Colors, prices, memory of the new Google phone (winfuture.de)
There's a reason he was shot. (lemmy.world)
But not the reason you think.
Does anyone know why SteamOS is based on arch rather than Debian?
Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?
"just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo of some random trees. the implications for privacy are terrifying. i had no idea we would get here so soon. holy shit" (twitter.com)
DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android (mullvad.net)
Nutzt ihr Giropay?
Ich finde es prinzipiell sehr sympathisch, dass es eine Alternative zu Paypal gibt. Allerdings sehe ich von der Umsetzung her noch Potenzial....
Microsoft Just Released MS-DOS Source Code! (github.com)
Other than AI, what technology are you excited about?
For me it’s quantum computing - especially considering its impact on most current encryption methods
Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 (www.tomshardware.com)
Google not working on Mull Browser
Recently installed Mull browser (with ublock origin) but when I try to reach google not secure site page is showed. Tried disabling HTTPS force and strictly privacy settings but nothing change. Any ideas? google is working with other browser so it’s a mull problem only. Thanks
Yeah, very sorry that this app is Windows only, would love to switch to Mac (feddit.de)
Stolen from Deltachat
Based on a true story (lemmy.world)
My OS is on a 512gb M.2 drive, but the main storage on my laptop was a 1TB HDD, it started making noise about 2 weeks ago so I backed everything up onto a 1TB SanDisk USB SSD. This afternoon it got very clicky when I booted it up after work and icons for a few games I had stored on it, like KSP and YUZU, disappeared from the...