The refusal to release pixel-specific source code also affects every other alternate OS for pixels.

friend

Lmao, y’all have friends? 🤣💀

Schengen, lol.

But isn’t the key supposed to be in the “Secure Element” (or whatever they call it)?

“A law to make crime illegal”

Same reason Microsoft allows people to use Windows without a license key.

(They want to get people used to their platform so they increase their popularity, and thus making more money in the end)

I personally don’t know how a non-smartphone is better is terms of privacy. Can you explain?

AFAIK, they have the same level of spying, just more restrictions and less features.

Do they resolve thepiratebay[dot]org?

I mean with physical access.

People living with you.

Or when you want to travel (domestically).

Someone who doesn’t need much experience can access the hard drive / SSD and replace the bootloader.

I know it probably doesn’t happen often, but this is more of a personal fear thing, I have trust issues with people.

Living alone is too expensive and thus I either have to stick with family, or split rent with random strangers as roommates, not to mention, some landlords can be creepy and do weird things. I don’t have trusted friends who can like live with me as a roomate and split the rent.

So anyways, I’m with parents, and I want evil-maid protections for peace of mind, since I can’t afford to live alone. (I mean like they are not dangerous criminals or anything like that, they’re just fucking nosey and I don’t like to find out how much do they want to spy on my online activities).

For phones, its already too locked-down and hard to modify so I’ll just trust the verified boot to do it’s job.

For computers, its too easy to edit the bootloader on the disk. So I think putting the botloader on such an encrypted USB and put it in read-only mode would protect against tampering with the bootloader.

I probably sound paranoid af right?

Basically, my threat model prioritizes preventing weirdos fucking with my electronics more than anyone else.

I was thinking more of like a Tamper-Resistant Boot Drive with a computer being Full Disk Encrypted, And I basically phisically carve my signature into the Hardware-Encrypted drive and always check to make sure its mine and that it hasn’t been replaced, then I unlock it in Read-Only mode, then I plug into a computer to select the bootloader on the USB drive to turn on the computer.

Basically its a Evil-Maid-Resistant setup.

Of course, someone with actual NSA or FSB skills are gonna get in, but its just so the average script-kiddie can’t just download some tampered bootloader online and easily replace the bootloader.

And also I can store like a Linux Distro and Windows installation media on there and know its its much more difficult to tamper with.

Does this work against the threat?

Not sure if a mobile device have that type of processing power lol

No.

I’ll just hope there’s a nerd out there protecting me by verifying the source code.

You can’t expect everyone to do their own research, but general rule of thumb:

Open Source > Close Source

Just as: Democracy > Autocracy

Maybe laws should require judicial review before they get enacted.

The way you defeat it, is a constitution that explicitly protect these rights and empowering a court that will strike down laws that violate those rights.

What? Who?

You prefer Google, a company that actively works with Israel for military purposes, against Palestinians, by offering them their cloud services, and then firing the employees that were protesting? It must feel good to purchase a Pixel from them, heh?

1. I never said to buy a pixel, I merely refuted your claim of apple being “the good guys”

2. How does Google being evil make Apple any better? Google, Apple, its both the same. Same genocide. You are being hypocritical by accusing others of being pro-genocide while you yourself are supporting genocide yourself. Get off your high horse, you are just a Pro-Apple Pro-Israel supporter that hate Palestinians, you literally cannot claim to have the “moral high ground”.

Apple

I trust that they don’t sell my data to everyone

The same corporation that donated money to a fascist?

🤔

Setting --> About Phone --> Software information --> Tap Build Number 7 times, type pin if prompted. --> Back to Main Settings menu --> Developer Options --> Look for a “Allow Bootloader to be Unlocked” or similar wording. If you can check the box, it should be bootloader unlockable. (I’ve never tried it myself, I just dig around settings a lot through curiosity)

nvm

OP had a stroke

Flipphones are just less feature, same spying.