the perfect showcase about the security guarantees of E2EE. It’s important, but it won’t save you if “your” phone is programmed to snitch on you. same thing applies to screen reader AIs, and whatever you grant accessibility permissions or the assistant app role.

fun fact: on most googled phones the google assistant app is by default, without approval, set as the assistant app, and it has access to screen contents. I don’t know if it has that access all the time, maybe only when you are baited to open it by long pressing the home button or trying to turn off your phone with the power button.

the same as with 23andme and other genetic analysis services

I think they weren’t shipping, so people had to find a reseller or something like that

they can have the slim modem, they shouldn’t get to know anything about the other parts of the OS

don’t forget, any time you meet him

there’s a quiz show on TV in my country. a few days ago they chose some marketing manager. they have dropped out at like the 3rd question, winning nothing. this is rare. Normally I’m cheering for players but I was gleeful for his loss.

because they can barely keep the lights on with one provider. but I’m sure you will be a long-term signal backup subscriber, and until then you are regularly sending them donations.

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

and how exactly is azure or google cloud better?

I don’t think the screen overlay permission gives access for screen capture

I was wrong. but this article seems to imply that it’s screen overlay permission is what is needed for this to work.

“tried” why, do you think they failed?

screen capture is an entirely different thing though, and that was not available without permissions for a very long time

the resource corporations use to avoid having to write code, but now they are paying for it, for an inferior service.

Oh my god this person

oh my god! calm down, maybe look at who other people agree with more in this thread.

If google completely closed up Android

that’s not possible, because the source code is already publicly available. they can not delete it from the hard drives of custom rom developers.

However if google finished closing up AOSP, what that would mean is no more future development coming from google. that’s the same with other projects, including harmony: google does not submit patches there either.

you still did not answer how is harmony os a better option than AOSP

we have platforms like that already. several mobile linux distributions, sailfish, whatever. what is the advantage of harmony os? android (as in AOSP) is much more mature all around, the bad parts need to be patched out but then its pretty good. why choose harmony os and leave behind android instead?

ok. but isn’t HarmonyOS as a whole a lot younger? why is it a better choice?

why should we use openharmony if there’s AOSP? we need more hands, but that’s better put on the existing project

I guess this is good news for all the people who have been locked out of their data by windows 11. as I have read in pasts months it’s been a thing.

ah I see! that’s a bit weird though, because doesn’t LTSC only receive security updates anyway?

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not if you mount the fan on the ceiling, and let it lift up the air