Did they call a contact that was in you ICE list by chance? Most people understand how that works these days.

Because they’re more mainstream, people have them, and using your phone number (which is easy to get around) doesn’t mean your texts can be read. Privacy and security aren’t the same thing.

That’s always been the case, and why privacy advocates have always said to use PIN/Patterns and not fingerprints and face unlock as police have the legal rights to your prints and face when under arrest. Sad this guy had to bring it to that level, shame on his lawyer that it went that far, it’s always been a 5th amendment argument that’s always stood in the past.

Over reacting, if you’re going to use computers and the internet, it’s literally the exact same thing. How much data you leak is 100% up to your practices, and of course phone choice. If you get a Pixel and run Graphene on it, you’re base is great. Beyond that, app choices become the next threat. Don’t use privacy invading apps you can’t trust, don’t give up data on the phone that you wouldn’t on a computer, then you can protect privacy as much as you can, while still being realistic and living normally.

The biggest hurdle is simply being aware of the threats you’re up against and how to mitigate them. 100% privacy isn’t a realistic goal. Minimizing the leaks and making it very difficult to connect the dots is a far more realistic plan.

It is, as it is in every major country on the planet. If something is truly deemed a threat to national security, rule book goes out the window. Problem is, when what constitutes a “national security threat” starts becoming vague.

No, one, you’ve firewalled the camera, second, the play services on Graphene are userland apps, theirs no special privilege there, and theres the hardened sandboxing on top of that.

While there are legitimate ways for apps to share even in the sandboxed environment (there needs to be for phones to work correctly) you can see those permissions in the apps and also must grant them. Remember, the biggest threat is in a normal situation where the play services have root access, which isn’t the case with Graphene. Surprisingly enough, most of the Google apps have minimal permissions and usually near no trackers other than analytics that most are blocking by default with DNS anyways.

The Pi’s aren’t very powerful, mini PCs are very cheap these days, I do just that with Jellyfin for years and it’s been great.

Problem is, it’s not! Every loophole they needed was built into HIPAA from the start. Most would be very surprised how much is allowed to show to people that aren’t your doctor.

they’re not even trying to do it effectively

Of course they’re not, because they’re smart enough to know they can’t as laws only apply to the people that willingly chose to follow them.

They know damn well that screwing with people, like the 99.99% of people buying Primatine and Bronkaid arent using it to make meth, those people buy kilos of it online and have it shipped to their doorstep, but if they fuck with people that suffer from allergies they get to say they’re doing “something”, and that shuts up the uninformed majority.

If they actually wanted a war on drugs, they could be very effective at it, but they know better. If they actually went through with it, theyd have no rationale to blow billions on useless govt agencies like the DEA. It’s in their best interest to talk the talk, but not walk the walk.

They do in MA, because we have the right to vehicle telematics data under our right to repair law, which is constantly being fought including by the feds.

It literally says that multiple times. Their UI and “other code” is closed, therefore the browser is NOT open source. Giving the base they started with doesn’t equal a browser, and doesn’t equal you being able to compile the finished product. It’s no more open source than Chrome.

Prize for being overly dramatic!

It literally makes less than zero sense to go from Graphene to e, Graphene is the most hardened privacy tweaked OS available, e would be a huge step backwards on many fronts, what’s your reason for wanting to switch? No, you can’t lock your bootloader with e, verified boot won’t be there, you’ll lose the hardened kernel , the improved sandboxing, the memory protection. It’s a fail from every angle.

I’ve been with Proton since beta, but holy shit is it annoying when they constantly drag ass, take feedback from what people want, then just do whatever (they) want. Especially given that most of us early adopters are the ones that are also the paying ones.

iOS has terrible choices when it comes to privacy and/or Open source. Apps that put control into the users hands are in direct conflict with Apple, and many times from what I know certain software licenses have issues getting approved there. See if Raivo is still around (may be spelled wrong).

Check out Techlore as well for recommendations across the board, before he went to a Pixel he ran an iPhone for a while and had a decent list of stuff for them IIRC.

Don’t ask, test and answer for yourself. Do fingerprint and security checks and see what comes out best.

I use Brave and uBlock. It does better when tested than all the others, including Vanadium, which SHOULD be besting them all. Firefox has come in second but still can’t stop it from bring fingerprinted regardless of what I do to it, that includes its spinoffs. Brave passes them all with its default config.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

There’s more in depth checks, but that easily covers the bases. If you’re being positively fingerprinted, the rest is a moot point.

What’s funny about that, is although I try to never shop at crap Kroger, sometimes its just easier, I noticed once when I wanted to check something for being in stock, I couldn’t view their website with my VPN up, didn’t matter the server. I said, they’re dataming something! Why would a read only website like that even care… I now know why.

Exactly!

What “stuff” are you referring to? Has the webapp, Android, iOS, Firesticks, Roku. What are you trying to run it on? Even my SmartTV has it in thier native store.

Anybody that still runs Plex deserves that shit. Its been a piece of shit for years and only gets worse.