Much of your data can just be subpoenaed and then provided to law enforcement without physical access however. Apple complies 90% of the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/23/apple-user-data-law-enforcement-falling-short

Also, there are ways that LE can bypass your iphone’s encryption. Just doesn’t work all the time.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ag5yj/unlock-apple-iphone-database-for-police

GrapheneOS, based on AOSP, is really the only truly private and secure option. Android offering interoperability is not a downside and Apple having a walled garden does not mean it provides increased security. Apple is decidedly not transparent and this is ultimately not a good thing.

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This is insanely moralistic and just a bad idea, but also… of all the things going on, how can this possibly be a priority?

Nevermind the infringement on human rights and the conservatives’ historical tendency to cater to corporate interests. Affordable housing wasn’t a priority under Harper either.

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I don’t understand the format of this. Why put a dictator/murderer/war criminal and shitty capitalist/conservative talking head having this detailed and interesting conversation. These two in no way deserve any of the positive association this meme implies.

If you’re using a stock android device, the OS on your phone still has permissions to read and write to storage, by necessity. If what you’re concerned about is privacy, you have very limited ability to set storage scopes if you don’t trust the OS, and this doesn’t really change if you install an app.

If you’re using fossify file manager or any other file manager, you’ve given that app+the default Files app access to your storage. This is not more private. Most of those similar apps are essentially just skins on top of the default manager (which I suppose could be useful). This only really adds attack surface and doesn’t have any meaningful privacy benefits, and potentially some detractors depending on the app you use.

If you don’t trust the operating system and its utilities, the best option is to find an operating system you trust, and not to just install new skins on top of existing apps.

I don’t get these arguments. These tools aren’t weapons, and limiting legal access to pentesting tools will decrease corp’s and individuals’ ability to be proactive about security.

These devices can be manufactured relatively easily and making them illegal will essentially mean the only people doing security tests are criminals. Large tech companies, correctly, run bug bounties where independent security researchers can make income by reporting reproducible and exploitable bugs. The concept here is called offensive security and it’s extremely important for building better and more secure platforms. This situation will never be improved by limiting legal access to useful testing tools.

The responsibility should be on automakers and other companies that have massively insecure products, not on open source developers who are making products for security researchers.

Well that’s actually exactly what I’d expect

It seems like maybe the problem is that automakers were able to widely market vehicles that use wireless protocols that are relatively easy targets for attack. This was never properly secure.

Automakers should absolutely be held to higher standards (in general) than they are, and it’s not likely that banning specific devices is going to have any measurable outcome here. It’s pretty well known that people buy and sell malware, and people can just… make devices similar to a Flipper with cheaply and readily available hardware.

This is just dumb posturing to avoid holding automakers and tech companies accountable for yet another dumb, poorly thought out, design feature.

And obviously it doesn’t stop at cars. It seems pretty clear that snooping on any feature using RFID or NFC tech is only going to become more widespread. Novel idea: what about using… actual keys as the primary method of granting physical access? Lock picking is obviously possible but a properly laid out disc-detainer lock is pretty goddamn hard to bypass even with the proper tools, and that skill can’t just be acquired in the same way as with electronic methods of bypass.

I once tried to do a relatively basic repair on a phone, and ended up really breaking it. Like the touch screen won’t work because I broke some shit on the motherboard that now requires micro soldering broke it.

So I send it to a repair company that allegedly does some micro soldering, and they call me to tell me they can’t repair it because their diagnostic utility doesn’t work unless it’s the stock OS (I’ve been a GrapheneOS user for many years). What they do is… wipe my data and then tell me it’s not the screen so they can’t repair it.

Then I sent it to an actually good repair shop and they fixed it very quickly, easily understanding the problem. Good repair companies aren’t easy to find but damn are they worth it. They’re almost always smaller shops and they do not GAF what you do with your phone’s software.

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So this was the exact thing that pushed me over to the FOSS side the last time they did it. Nice to see the tradition of annoying users to the point of them abandoning Microsoft is alive and well.

Kind of an aside, but there are a lot people who think they don’t like tomatoes because of what is generally commercially available and sold as “fresh” tomato.

It’s actually wild how different vine-ripened tomatoes are in taste and texture, compared to their commercially produced counterparts.

The flavour and texture of fresh tomatoes tends to develop more fully than if picked half-ripe and ripened during transport or storage. Also, the soil tomatoes are or aren’t grown in has a pretty significant influence on its flavour. Refrigeration also has a pretty significant effect on taste as well. It’s suggested that you don’t chill them, as this reportedly changes the flavour considerably.

There are actually a few recent studies that assess the flavour qualities of different tomatoes by region, variety and method of growing. Commercially produced tomatoes have largely been selected for shelf life and yield, without much consideration given to taste or texture (and it shows).

This is kind of an aside but it’s always weird looking at caricatures of poverty from the 90s and earlier, where people live in modest homes they seem to own. Or people living alone in plain apartments in places like New York.

A six-figure salary in so many cities means that you can probably rent a decent apartment and never own anything. It’s just so obvious that this system isn’t working.

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That’s really not an accurate representation. Here’s a short article that goes into this: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-14661582

They’re also heavily implicated in the illegal logging trade in eastern Europe: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/ikea-likely-sold-furniture-linked-illegal-logging-forests-crucial-earth-n1273745

Fundamentally I have a problem with oppressed people licking the boots of oppressors. And what that means partially is using consumerism as “representation” (that in this case directly benefits a billionaire family with direct and deep Nazi ties) is not super cool with me. Do you know the term pink washing? It refers to a thinly-veiled attempt to get financial support of queers without any meaningful support to queers. Lots of corporations have pride floats – it’s great, low-cost marketing.

Like whatever. Consume to your heart’s content. But I think it’s pretty embarrassing to have this prepackaged garbage as the best we can do for a modern icon, especially considering the source. You do you, but I’m just saying this shit is dumb.

I don’t get this. It’s a shitty plush made by a company founded by a literal Nazi.

Well that is legit very funny and cute.