Google’s reCAPTCHA service is reportedly broken for users on de-Googled Android devices, raising accessibility and privacy concerns.

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    Oh, so you just believe everything… Every CPU has undocumented instruction sets… For hardware to be trustworthy, it would have to be open-source… but that goes for SS7 and the like too… Oh, whatever—just trust your honeypot

    You can’t trust mobilephones. Simple

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      cool but like, that doesn’t answer the question. do you use a phone? If so, which one?

      wait are you my vanguard icefox? with the two little cats?

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        I use a totally ordinary Android phone with nothing important on it because I generally don’t trust the thing. Leave my cute cats out of this. xD I’d rather have a device knowing that I can’t trust it in principle than rely on an operating system when you still can’t trust the hardware.

        But yea its me. Hey vik xD

        https://youtu.be/fM5w7bFNvWI A great talk at 39C3

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          aww I was hoping to see cats 😔

          for whatever it’s worth, you can regularly buy pixels at a loss around the holiday season. I’m not fond of buying google hardware but there’s something beautiful about having them sell to you at a loss without being able to recoup via ads / telemetry.

          and I feel as if there’s some credence to projects like graphene when law enforcement get frustrated about its security and associate pixels with drug dealers on sight (like in Barcelona). i’ll watch that talk though!

          that said, I’m also exploring true Linux phones that can be used with postmarketOS. not expecting miracles or anything.

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            Yeah, my next phone will also be one that I can flash with Linux. Right now I have a Chinese spy Xiaomi.

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                How did you think of me right away, when I’ve hardly been online lately? :D Especially since I’m so unimportant. xD

                Because of the pixels… I used to think about it, but I don’t want Google hardware. I’ve also turned down iPhones that people wanted to gift me. I could have resold them, but nah.