knowing a phone model is not the same as seeing and ID card with all the Details, that makes a huge difference for the individual’s privacy…
most ISP operators I have seen don’t give a damn about your privacy, if you’re their friend, just ask… give them a phone number and they’ll give you all the details ( Face, Home Address… Etc )… In other countries like Iraq, you can buy that information for a very very low price…
removing the ID card from the equation provides huge privacy benefits for people from these sick fucks… If you’re worried about being found by the authorities… Avoid SIM cards alltogether
I have accounts on various Reddit alternatives and have also had accounts on now-defunct sites. However, none have exhibited the same level of negativity as Lemmy.
If TikTok disappears, I will miss the algorithm.TikTok gives me the right amounts of all of the things I’m interested in. I don’t have the same experience elsewhere. Do you?
Good for you, it makes one attention span short as a little kid, … I hate it when my friends get their phone out while we’re outside and start doom scrolling ( switching ) shorts on YT/Tiktok… whatever…
At first I was patient about it, but now as soon as they switch to the second short I tell them to hide their phones, it’s so @#&@% rude…😤
Throughout the years there’s been many useful information shared on staying safe during protests as well as many infographics made. What are some safety tips you’ve learned and some infographics you’ve saved?...
They WILL use locational data against you if your phone is on, Even if it’s off
Based on what I know, this can be achieved in two ways:
SIM card: it records your location all the time, so they can get that from your phone company
request it from Google or Apple ( that’s why you should degoogle your phone )
If you remove the SIM card and don’t connect to any hotspot ( obviously ), then your phone is just a camera, but the issue is that you’ll want to broadcast live, so you’ll need an Internet connection… So
While SIM cards have historically served as a primary means of identifying and tracking mobile devices, advancements in GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth technologies have expanded the horizons of phone tracking beyond the constraints of SIM card dependency.
I mean that’s what I tried to say, SIM cards are the biggest offender when it comes to phone tracking, since they’re linked to your ID card, it’s such an easy method of tracking, unfortunately the article doesn’t go in depth ( as it claims ) on how to leverage GPS tracking for example, which brings me to my second question
given the resources that a state can bring to bear.
SIM card is the primary method used, it’s so easy and available, the government will for sure take advantage of such tracking capability, but since the article doesn’t give any example of how can GPS tracking can be achieved, like we know that the SIM card pings cell towers all the time, and it transmits unique IDs, and you buy it with an ID, you get the picture… in the case of other tracking methods, it’s seems ( to me at least ), that the attacker ( the government in this case, not necessarily the US government ), has to invest in extra resources to leverage such tracking capabilities that use obscure methods, how much that’s question? they must be really motivated
Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.”...
Yeah, that’s what I i did, first tried Nobara, I liked it but encountered some issues, tried to fix them but I realized I spent too much time and there’s no clear fix, so I hoped on Fedora and everything works nicely, exept for the Multimedia drivers which I’m still trying to fix…
It’s the stupid US patent law, and they don’t wanna deal with any “legal” issues, showing you how to install those drivers is how far they can go… But this is Exactly why these drivers are broken, they’re not well integrated and not tested by Fedora devs…
That’s why Distros like Ultramarine promise you a working Fedora experience OOTB, because they’re not US based and such laws don’t apply to their software…
I’m trying to rescue data from an old Huawei Ascend P6 with a broken screen, is there a way to get access to the data and clone it, without screen interaction?
find the storage module in the phone, hook it to a PC and extract its data
I thought this would be one of the potential solutions, for it because the screen is just gone, and they’re scarce… But like you said they have to be really good
I hope it’s not encrypted
It runs a very outdated android, I’m not sure about the state of encryption in such devices 🤷♂️
Can you see what’s on the screen or is the screen display broken along with the digitizer?
No the screen is broken like totally gone, it glitches and it’s 95% shattered, it only lights on and the phone doesn’t even vibrat to indicate “something”
It’s been a long time since I’ve used USB OTG
Oh, so… I guess that’s why… yeah… Like I said, Android will ask you : what you wanna do ? And you have to select ( transfer files ) otherwise it won’t give you access to it’s local storage…
Lemmy is full of plenty of people who hate me for being trans and disabled. And way too many self-identified leftists who think I’m being trans and disabled the wrong way and am therefore a right wing troll....
Digital surveillance is omnipresent in China. Here’s how citizens are coping (theconversation.com)
Bloat (lemmy.zip)
First Phone 2, now the Nothing Phone 1 is getting ChatGPT integration (www.androidauthority.com)
Saudi content creator arrested for insulting god (lemmy.world)
Why does the culture surrounding Lemmy seem to be inherently negative and hateful?
I have accounts on various Reddit alternatives and have also had accounts on now-defunct sites. However, none have exhibited the same level of negativity as Lemmy.
Does Instagram or YouTube Shorts get you?
If TikTok disappears, I will miss the algorithm.TikTok gives me the right amounts of all of the things I’m interested in. I don’t have the same experience elsewhere. Do you?
[Funny Suggestion] Mozilla should make a moz protocol
Looking at the Mozilla logo, we could see a URI hiding (or not) in there. Like mysql://....
What are some useful protest safety tips and infographics?
Throughout the years there’s been many useful information shared on staying safe during protests as well as many infographics made. What are some safety tips you’ve learned and some infographics you’ve saved?...
Are you there, Dad? (lemmy.world)
Why is Lemmy full "I support the current thing"
Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down (www.theverge.com)
Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.”...
alternative to OneTab?
I just lost all my tabs within it, any recommendations for an alternative?
The fix is scheduled for the next release (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Image text: “Fact: 90% of Linux users switch back to windows right before all their problems are about to be fixed”
How to get data moved out of a ( basically ) dead Huawei P6
I’m trying to rescue data from an old Huawei Ascend P6 with a broken screen, is there a way to get access to the data and clone it, without screen interaction?
Right wing fediverse instances?
Lemmy is full of plenty of people who hate me for being trans and disabled. And way too many self-identified leftists who think I’m being trans and disabled the wrong way and am therefore a right wing troll....