If they’re insecure then there is an easy way to exploit it to root/flash it with a better OS if that wasn’t already possible. Not everyone wants to drop $900 on a hunk of plastic.

the linux kernel is used in nuclear missiles

source:

Conversely… if it’s so benign, why should it have a label?

The government is not treating any and all representations of “antifascism” as terrorism now, they are targeting this one single website because there is evidence that they knowingly provide services to some existing groups that were already deemed terrorists.

If there’s any debate about whether or not those groups should have been deemed terrorists in the first place, that’s a different issue altogether as far as enforcing the law is concerned.

So yeah, antifascism is now terrorism according to the US gov.

I think if you dig a little deeper you will find the issue is not quite so black-and-white.

I’m saying because of that I don’t think tor can be said to be “for true anonymity browsing”.

Will these still be considered “criminal phones” by the governments that already make that claim against GrapheneOS users?

there are many decent smartphones available for less money than pixels though, even from motorola

I was more complaining about the obviously-wrong title, because yes the article does explain how to uninstall it.

How would it be reinstalled if you can’t uninstall it in the first place?

To me “can’t remove” implies it cannot be uninstalled at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

Snowden files also shows us that multiple world governments admit their goal is to run and control as many nodes as possible to increase chances of Sybil attack successes.

But the title says it can’t be removed?

Tor browser (for true anonymity browsing

I lol’ed

Power off the phone completely.

Snowden proved this isn’t always possible. There are phones that have their baseband radio continually powered on even if the main application OS is shut down… further complicated by the fact that most batteries are no longer removable (especially outside the EU).

Also, it’s possible for the baseband to have its own physical connection to the device’s GPS, mic, camera etc. that it can use even when the main OS isn’t running. Coupled with proprietary blackbox radios known to have intentional weaknesses and sometimes backdoors… it’s basically never safe to have a phone on you, period.

Why is immutable a requirement?

Edge, Kiwi, and Yandex browsers on Android support Dark Reader (and extensions in general).

https://darkreader.org/tips/mobile/

https://www.makeuseof.com/chrome-extensions-android-mobile/

Did you miss the part where you must disable Javascript?

Who said anything about critical?

I just don’t want my hard disk wiped when I decide to try a piece of software.

ELI5?

Dark Reader master race