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What a superb list! Saved.
I was thinking of writing a guide on how to lead a digitally private and secure “life” since so many bad guides are out there.
I’d like to add that the best private and secure Operating Systems are:
Private Search Engines
Private Browsers
Qubues runs containers yes, but the unique use of a paravirtualized Fedora Linux kernel itself leaves open lots of unique security holes and is therefore extremely hard reviewing the security of it yourself.
GrapheneOS is constantly being showboated by Ed Snowden which is a red flag and I did experience app contamination on it. I would also suggest PostmarketOS. Definite no on CalyxOS.
I’d like to throw in my own Free Open Source, git clone, security repositories for BSD and Firefox available on Bitbucket, Github, and my own self-hosted git server with the latest files. All my software is currently written in Python (my very first Python scripts!) and short so it’s very easy to review.
I have never heard of Grasp before.
They have cloudflare set to ‘go away’ so it refuses to load in Mull.
Cromite works.
Blacklight says it sends info to Google. Firewall logs confirm this.
https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=usegrasp.com%2F&device=mobile&location=us.
Am I missing something?
ETA: this is a paid search. I am fine with that, but I am not paying for search and getting Google tracking.
The Blacklight results come up exceptional compartively, 1 tracker, 1 cookie, and it’s easy to block Google. It doesn’t do that over accounts or sessions however, and that is a quite positive attribute. Thanks for the awareness on that though, for everyone. I always advise to use a blocking browser. I guess overall I see the best-in-class results to be worth it every once in a while.
You mentioned Cromite for Android, isn’t that conflicting? Cloudflare is the #1 MITM privacy destroyer so that’s great too. I’ll have to check under VPN.
Could I get your recommendation for what you would advise for a private search engine that has acceptable results?
Good info overall, thanks for this comment.
I’m not sure what you mean by this
‘You mentioned Cromite for Android, isn’t that conflicting?’
For search I use Searx, https://4get.ca/, and https://trystract.com/
Can you elaborate on that or link to any information on this?
Is there any reason you mentioned that specific searx instance?
Yeah, it’s just that I sponsor envs.net for the contributions they make to the NIX community as well as Nim, Zig, Musl, GhostBSD, NetBSD, and Dragonly BSD - all more secure than the alternative.
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Could you expand on Graphene (specifically the app contamination you experienced) and Calyx? (Links are fine, just want to add to my reading list).
Any thoughts on Lineage/DivestOS issues/limitations (neither one tries to be like Graphene, though Divest does some interesting stuff, I’m running it without Google because old phone).
Yeah, GetPocket App from Aurora store was able to turn on location on GrapheneOS about 4 months back. After reading the AuroraOSS Store Founder’s profile on Gitlab, I no longer trust AuroraOSS and if you are using GrapheneOS I would advise to vet and install your own apks.
I had a CalyxOS phone whose ROM was hacked which should be impossible outside the factory. Yes, I’m sure and if you had access to the phone, you would also be sure. I’m a huge target whereas most people are not so maybe some high end team was run at me and that would not happen to you.
I’m not competent enough about mobile OS security as of yet to vet mobile OS in detail, but thanks for awareness on Lineage/Divest.
Wow, that’s messed up with Get Pocket. Wonder how it was able to do that?
I’ll take you at your word for the ROM hack, I just can’t see how it could be done if your bootloader is locked and you maintain physical control of the device. We really don’t know what capabilities are out there for state-level actors (for all we know there’s code in the hardware that we simply can’t access, I’ve seen discussion of such things on ROM forums).
I’ll take a look at the Aurora git - thanks for telling me about it.
Good luck.
hi wravoc, good to see you again and i must say your git page is looking sweeet
Hah, I didn’t even realize this was you! Great job here, although between us you already know what I think about what it takes to secure TOR ;)
Thanks for the compliment, I had to hack around bad Gogs docs for hours to implement that.
Why use Gogs when you could use Forgejo or Gitea?