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  • If your threat model includes Google as a trusted party, you’re an untrusted party to me.

    It is sus that they privilege Google software in so many ways over other FOSS implementations. Saying “well Google can be trusted to be reasonably secure” is not an excuse for anyone who considers Google to be one of the primary parties they wish to keep their information away from.

    I have a lot more trust in F-Droid because they take a principled stance against Google. Maybe their software is not as high quality as GOS devs would insist, but I can trust that they will not act against my interests, far more so than the GrapheneOS project.



  • Tons of cited links are utter bunk, just in ways that don’t blatantly violate Wikipedia’s guidelines. So many references to slop (in the pre-AI sense) books written by people with no real subject matter authority. Actually looking at the sources section makes it a lot more apparent how flawed Wikipedia is for anything that is not cut and dry.

    More websites should archive their linked content. Great practice in general.




  • This is why threat modeling is important.

    but what if I get arrested on some false pretenses and they use cellebrite to gain access?

    Chances are they can clone the eMMC and wait for a CVE. Or threaten or hold you until you cave. If a lawsuit is your only recourse, I would expect any constitutional barriers to be ignored in practice. Your best bet is to never end up being an explicit target, which may be more difficult for certain individuals.

    My threat model considers dragnet surveillance as the primary threat, so I’d compromise on surviving dirty maid type attacks in favor of reducing the information my device gives out.

    Obviously if your device is being actively exploited, you cannot be private. But your security requirements increase greatly if your data footprint indicates to them that you warrant targeted scrutiny.






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    7 months ago

    Ignoring all your weird patronization of the global south…

    If you don’t like America, then get off Lemmy. Because guess what? Lemmy was largely developed by an American. Yes, I know it involved collaboration with developers from other countries, but the primary origin is still American.

    No idea if the main developer, comrade dessalines, is American, but they have a Che Guevara profile pic.

    Here’s a snippet from the US atrocities section of their essays repo:

    “If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.” - Nelson Mandela

    Two of the other original devs are Nutomic and SleeplessOne1917. Nutomic has a Fidel Castro pfp, and SleeplessOne1917 uses the year of the October revolution in their username. Safe to say the devs of Lemmy do not like America. They also admin lemmygrad.ml

    Might want to check your assumptions (and western chauvinism)

    If you don’t like America, then get off Lemmy. Because guess what? Lemmy was largely developed by an American based communist revolutionaries. Yes, I know it involved collaboration with developers from other countries the great satan, but the primary origin is still American Marxist-Leninist.

    FTFY!





  • Notice these same people don’t come out of the woodwork upon the mere utterance of “El Salvador” or “Bukele” like they do with “Venezuela” and “Maduro” even as Trump is deporting legal citizens to CECOT.

    The words “dictatorship” and “authoritarianism” are clue words for followers of western publications to turn off their brains. They want to sort countries, parties, and leaders into neat little “good guys” and “bad guys” bins. These words allow them to do that with minimal effort, circumventing the need to understand the societies involved. Questioning that framing takes research effort and “sympathizing with authoritarians” so they never do it.