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Graphene isn’t root friendly because root friendly is a security vulnerability. You CAN install GOS builds which allow you to have root, but if you care about security (and, that’s why you’re here) then you should not.

Exactly. What the attestation system would do is give some government agency de facto control over which OSs could be installed on phones. Right now, using GrapheneOS and being outside of corporate attestation chains just means that you can’t use the NFC payment system. It could very well be that every major commercial service would deny you access if you couldn’t pass an attestation verification via some browser API. An example would be if age verification were a thing, they could ‘think of the children’ argue their way into only allowing OSs with age verification systems which are approved by the government to access social media or any website that would be considered 18+. EU countries have already tried attacking GrapheneOS as a tool of criminals. It doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to see how they would refuse to allow ‘the criminal OS’ to be part of their attestation chain. Or if chat control passes, only devices that implement the mass surveillance spyware would be allowed to be attested. The government wouldn’t allow non-compliant operating systems to pass their tests. The point of an attestation chain is to provide control over which devices are allowed to be verified and to use that verification status to gate access to services.

You gain the loss of the ability to play League of Legends and Fortnite

I haven’t tested this, but fairly sure you could just install vortex, mo2 or whatever other modmanager to same prefix as where the game is. Yeah, you can use protontricks to execute any executable inside the WINE environment. You can take the command used to do that and put it in a .desktop file so you can run the program from a desktop icon or launcher. Installing mods mostly considered a ‘problem’ by the standard of gaming on Steam where you just press play and let Proton take the wheel. If you were running games through WINE prior to Proton, it is much easier now.

You can’t. Social media is public, period. If you want private social interactions then use end-to-end encrypted communication services. Any oppressive regime will have multiple tools that can identify your access to social media services and determine who the human is behind the keyboard. Assume that everything you post on public social media has your real life name and address attached to it. Unless you’re an expert and taking extreme measures (and you wouldn’t be asking this question if you were such an expert) then anonymous access to online services with respect to a sovereign power with an intelligence service is impossible.

Yes, surely TOR will protect us from government surveillance… I don’t get the sarcasm. Everything that you’ve posted suggests that it will. Simply pointing out public funding doesn’t make it less secure. It’s implying (or allowing others to imply) some hidden conspiracy that breaks TOR in some way that we don’t know about. If this is a source of vulnerability, it has not been demonstrated. Based on what we do know: “We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time”, but “with manual analysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users”. when used in conjunction with other privacy tools such as OTR, Cspace, ZRTP, RedPhone, Tails, and TrueCrypt was ranked as “catastrophic,” leading to a “near-total loss/lack of insight to target communications, presence…” TOR is open source and the protocol is well understood. The software has been audited multiple times by multiple different sources. The TOR network itself is secure. The people who get ‘caught using TOR’ are caught based on other failures of their personal security. Like forgetting to enable TOR once and logging into an IRC channel, connecting to a malicious site with a javascript enabled browser, running TOR on an exploitable phone or running a business who’s payments travel through financial networks viewable by the adversary. There’s more to cybersecurity than simply installing the TOR browser bundle. If you are not familiar with this field, do not risk your freedom or safety trying to do things on TOR which would cause you to come to the attention of intelligence services or other bad people.

I understand and agree with you. Various companies go out of their way to make plugin-ins for the platform that everyone uses and everyone uses the platform because of the additional support that it receives on account of being the most popular. Microsoft is the one that ultimately benefits by being able to make anti-consumer decisions because each individual decision by Microsoft isn’t as bad as the friction required to switch and learn to a new IDE. Microsoft can move the product in any direction that they want as long as they do it in steps tiny enough to not scare people away from their platform. In the end we’re the frogs that they’re boiling, eventually you gotta jump out of the pot.

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Exactly. This isn’t a decision being made to cut costs, it’s a strategic move because the EU just assessed how badly they’d be screwed if Trump throws a tantrum and forces American tech companies to disrupt services to their governments. In addition, the EU has strong data privacy laws and US tech companies are resisting compliance (Elon was recently fined 150million, for example). This has led to several hearings with tech executives who said that they could not guarantee that the data would stay in the EU and they could not guarantee that the data would not be provided to any other country. Digital privacy laws don’t mean anything if they don’t apply to the major tech companies and they’ve said that they won’t comply.

It’s an analogy, the article is about digital privacy not drugs. It doesn’t matter what substance he uses as an analogy because he’s talking about the dangers of pushing a dangerous product at industrial scale.

The person is using heroin as a metaphor for a destructive product that causes harm to its users in order to setup an article about digital privacy. When people use metaphors, we all understand that they’re a rhetorical technique and not an attempt at describing reality. If someone says that their grandchildren are perfect little angles, you don’t say “well, actually, angels are divine beings who don’t dwell upon this earth Grandma, so your grandchildren are not angels and also you’re so dumb for literally thinking that.” In this scenario, it isn’t the grandmother that is dumb. You’re getting caught up in the fact that he said to imagine a scenario. You think that the fake scenario he imagined, where US corporations are selling recreational heroin, is not as bad as the current opioid epidemic. That is a completely irrelevant detail because, once again, the article isn’t about drugs. It’s like you’re saying “this guy is stupid, you can’t put social media in a spoon and melt it over a candle in order to inject it into your arm!”. Sure, I guess you’d be correct, but it would be completely irrelevant and make it look like you can’t navigate basic conversations without pointless digressions about irrelevant details.

Based on this I’m not gonna read the rest of the article because he’s already demonstrated a head-up-ass perspective. You do know that the entire rest of the article never mentions drugs ever again and you’re getting needlessly spun-up about a metaphor for social media and you’re just trolling, right?

And poorly designed software in my… everything

SmartTVs will hold onto your data as long as they have storage, even through a factory reset. So if you sell it and the next person hooks it up to the Internet then the data is uploaded.

from the Tuya app. www.tuya.com/solution/hardware/robot-vacuum

Helldivers 2’s new beta client is 24GB (current client: 150+GB). So, I’ve at least had a chance to download more hard drive space