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Itoldmyselfso
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Comment #49210404
More apps starting to ban GrapheneOS in the guise of "security" is becoming increasingly worrying. Legal action in the EU may be the only option to stop this trend.
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Comment #49099565
Pirated copies seem like a blackbox of potential malware, even if virus scans fail to find any problems (and they often give 10-30% false positives on most keygens/cracks). Even if…
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Comment #49090153
You can install GOS via another Android phone...
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Comment #49090112
You can always buy an used Pixel. GOS only supports phones with hardware that they deem secure enough, and Google is currently the only manufacturer that makes phones that match th…
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Comment #49074593
Many cars already have internal/cabin view camera. I'd imagine it will sooner or later get detection for potential theft and kidnapping situations, where it can simply detect the d…
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Comment #49013794
I was referring to confusion experienced by people new to the passkeys creating passkeys for the first time ("Where am I saving this to?", "How do I store this in my password manag…
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Comment #49013093
The anti-phising benefits are still very much there even if you sync them to pw manager. Yes it introduces single point of failure (pw manager), but at the same time you no longer …
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Comment #49012980
Passkey comprises of public key that the website you created it on holds, and the private key you store on your pw manager or in the TPM/secure element. As long as you can copy the…
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Comment #48977025
Paywalling with extremely easy, one-click payment of very small amount might work. Paywalling does still incentivize things like misleading, sensationalized click-bait titles, but …
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Comment #48949340
Time estimate depends heavily on the apps you use (data migration in them) and maybe some features that don't easily work out-of-the-box in GOS like Google's find my device, where …
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Comment #48881241
That's ublock origin preinstalled, not internal/built-in adblocking.
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Comment #48692476
You're accusing them of ties to Russia... based on their names?
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Comment #48680091
You can install MS store (not sure about the login though) on ltsc with one command: wsreset -i
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Comment #48617333
How can you be so sure they have never been used in the wild? Surely not all uses of them get reported...
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Comment #48568377
It's valid question for people unfamiliar with the project, but it is the AOSP in terms of looks, GrapheneOS does not customize the UI in any way beyond what their own features req…
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Comment #48567981
It works exactly the same as in the original "Pixel OS", you just install the same camera app from Play store.
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Comment #48567896
Do you refer to app-accessible root or user root access? The former is absolutely inherently insecure and compromises the security model of Android/GOS.
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Comment #48562474
There's nobody gatekeeping what can be studied and what can't. You claim millions are being wasted; by who? Is the goverment funding the studies you deem as wasted? If so you'd thi…
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Comment #48474755
There's also Simple tab groups which allows creation of file backups at regular intervals https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...
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Comment #48290588
What bugs have you found with Tresorit? Has worked great for my company so far.
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Comment #48235450
Comment you're replying to should've specified afterwards . Feature that were never there is very different than pay walling a such essential feature.
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Comment #48149320
It can be a factual statement about the commercial VPN landscape at large, but an incorrect statement about many individual VPN providers. It lacks nuance as a statement.
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Comment #48099739
A very relevant article: "On the security of plugins" (in notes app) https://standardnotes.com/blog/on-the-security-of-plugins
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Comment #48077148
It was announced a while ago to be Mororola: https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at...
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Comment #47940981
Motorola devices that match the GrapheneOS requirements are coming next year. It's good thing they're not compromising on hardware requirements that would undermine the goals of th…