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Not exactly good but the way I do it is to use a USB HDD to have backups and E2EE cloud solutions


They are very security fovused and is against f-droid’s poor security practices. They do push accrescent through their stores tho


I assume you’re using it with bootloader unlocked. The issue is somehow some malware injects your phone and roots it, it can just install itself as a system service and just live there and you’ll never know. The security feature that protects against it is disabled once bootloader is unlocked.

Also I’ve heard that LineageOS has not all security updates present since some firmware updates needs to be provided by the specific manufacturer. For Pixel, Google provides it and GOS uses it.


I’ll pay the hardware with money and not my data.

Way to go


Yeah GrapheneOS rarely does eye-candy features. They have a very small team so they exclusively work on security features.


Yeah it’s ironic but what is the alternative? At least we CAN remove Google’s known spyware from the device, and there’s no evidence of firmware level spying. If you get Samsung, or some chinese crap, you can’t remove Google period, and you might get spied by the manufacturer as a cherry on top. There is no way to have a perfect solution, well unless Samsung starts to provide Custom ROM support or something.


Regarding banking app, check privsec.dev 's list.

Regarding Pixel, don’t see it as giving money to Google, see it as payingnfor good hardware.


Banking apps works for me, they have a list at privsec.dev check that out first.


MicroG doesn’t have as much compatibility as Sandboxed Pkay. Also I think LineageOS is not as patched and kept up to date, maybe try DivestOS or CalyxOS (both forks of Lineage)


Did you fix VoLTE stuff? What was the issue?


Cool! How would you compare it to iOS experience?


Anyone here use GrapheneOS??
I am a long term GrapheneOS user and would like to talk about it. r/privacy on the redditland blocks custom OS discussions which I think is very bad for user privacy, and I hope this post will be useful to anyone who are in the hunt for better privacy. Nowadays smartphones are a much bigger threats to our privacy and Desktop systems, and unfortunately manufacturers has designed them to be locked down devices with no user freedom. You can't just "install Linux" on most smartphones and it is horrible. And most preloaded systems spy on us like crazy. That was why I specifically bought a pixel and loaded GOS onto it. According to https://grapheneos.org/features , they start from base AOSP's latest version, imptoves upon it's security and significantly hardens it. There's hardened_malloc to.prevent against exploitation, disabling lots of debugging features, disabling USB-c data, hardening the Linux kernel and system apps etc. They even block accessing the hardware identifiers of the phone so that apps cannot detect whqt phone you're using. That means with Tor and zero permissions given, apps are anonymous. Compatibility with apps are best in Custom ROMs but there are still that can't work, especially if they enforce device integrity. Very few apps usually enforce that tho. Also their community isn't the friendliest but you can get help. Just don't try and engage too much or have too many debates. Anyone else here use GrapheneOS, or any other privacy ROMs? What is your experience? Do you disagree on any point? Let's have a discussion!
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Can we start a group in wire?
I use wire (wire. com) for daily chatting. I like it but I couldn't find any good communities in wire. In session, or simpleX, there are privacy (and other) groups in which anyone can participate.. Can we start a privacy group in wire so we folks can also hang around?
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Aurora store doesn’t even work anymore… Btw you can pay using the web interface too? Do we need play billing API?


Their open soruce only has skiff mail, what about the otther products?


I hope they at least are doing the E2EE thing… Last thing I want is to know that they could in fact read the decrypted data…

Are they open source?



Is Skiff trustworthy?
I've been using skiff. com for sometime, as they claim to be a fully privacy preserving app suite like GApps or proton. One thing I like is they provide 10GB storage even for free accounts, where proton eventhough much bigger provides only 500MB. But that got me wondering... Are they trustworthy as proton? Is there a chanve they end up being a honeypot? Does data actually gets encrypted before sending to the servers in a trustworthy way?
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What about simplex? It looks like it uses random message queues for each connection (contact) and once deleted from devices then it doesn’t look likethere is any solid way of identifying if a connection existed…

(NB: simplex don’t have an account for a user in their cloud at all because of how it works so recovery is impossible without latest backups, so that’s a no go for me)


I wasn’t able to find technical details regarding the metadata, and was a bit worried about it…

Lile do they know who I message the most, or how much I message them? Is deniability of contact/messages possible?


Is wire messenger private in 2023?
Basically title. Looks like wire is now heavily being targeted towards corporates. In a corporate environment you don't need too much privacy, so I was wondering... Is wire messenger private in 2023? Where does it stands in the current stack among WhatsApp, signal, simplex etc..? Exactly how much data is being collected?
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bitcoin is really bad for privacy tho. I think let’s use Monero and it’s tech stack


I was thinking about an alternative internet infrastructure that’s built from ground up with privacy in mind. For utopians ofc.



fuck majority let them sink we now look only after ourselves


lol that’s pretty desperate… A better idea I think is let all of us privacy minded individuals from the world migrate t ONE country specifically thereby becoming a major force or even the majority of them. Then we can have like minded politicians and government that can help us protect our privacy. An island in this shit world.

What about swiss or sweden? Are they good?


Bookmarked! Make a post for others to see!


Btw, does banking apps work on graphene? What banks still work?


How can you trust the proxy? Also it’s still giving in to chrome’ s monopoly



This is the last stand.
We are starting to see for quite some time big tech trying to get the internet under their control. We have seen half of the internet starting to block proxies. Tor is not usable in the normal internet anymore. More and more services require a government issued id for their account. And now Google went ahead and did the final blow by announcing WEI. If that gets integrated on all popular sites, there will be no more open web. We try to fight back as much as we can, but the bitter truth is most people are already 'good little pets' of these giants. Most of the people, are not just okay, but want these big brothers to handle everything for them. They want to get their finances, entertainment, social medias, government services all done for them by these giants without them even knowing. They are ready to live as big brother says. Half of them already don't have individual opinions. Although the fight still continues, ***It's time to think about plan B.*** What if most of internet is blocked for us privacy conscious people? We need alternatives. **It's time to build an ecosystem that we people can use without the help of popular services.** There are already a lot of softwares, but we need to fill the gaps fast. We need an open hardware, accessible and a fully open software stack including everyday apps for most of our needs and entertainments. On PC it's almost there. Mobile terribly lacks in the lowest levels, but have some apps that can help. ## PC # For PC, we can still install linux on most devices, so linux. For browsing, we can use firefox or any forks of that. Proton and skiff are good alternatives for basic email, storage etc. For social media we have federated systems like lemmy, services like odysee, mewe etc. ***Share services that you think should be in this list*** ## Mobile # For mobile, we miss variety in hardware section. One option might be pinephone or other linux phones. Other option might ironically be Pixel. For OS, we can use graph eneOS, cal yx OS, linux based OS etc. But setting it up is currently very hard. For browsing, firefox for android is good (I use it) which also has extensions support. Above mentioned services like proton, skiff, lemmy, odysee, mewe etc. has android apps. For IM we have briar, Session, simpleX etc. ***Share services that you think should be in this list*** Help me document a full recommended ecosystem. Maybe we can have a recommended guide. Maybe there are better options. Discuss.
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