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> Of course that means basically no 3rd party apps I'm using LineageOS without Play Store/Services and would like to dispel this myth. Here are just some of the third party applica…

Step 1: Never, under any circumstances, sign into Google Play Services. Better still would be to rid your Android of it altogether and install LineageOS.

Removing OnStar antenna and power was one of the first things I did on my new GM truck. It doesn't require any special tools or knowledge and only takes several minutes. The fact I…

It doesn't offer end-to-end encryption, therefore there is little reason to be interested. It speaks volumes about the product and company that built it, that it's 2019 and it isn'…

Not if the sole purpose of that account is email and nothing more. I should be able to make decisions about what an account is used for and how to authenticate, even if that's the …

Does mutt support oauth yet? If not, this will be the last straw for G Suite from me. I can sort-of understand turning off "less secure" apps in consumer Gmail, but forcing "securi…

What does any of this have to do with whether or not AOSP is open source? The Play Store isn't even part of AOSP nor Lineage/Graphene, so the point of that tangent is even less cle…

AOSP is absolutely open source: the code can be viewed, modified, built and deployed as desired. There's good reason to be skeptical of Google-developed software, but your characte…

I like awk as a calculator: calc () { awk "BEGIN { print "$*" }" } $ calc "2^16" 65536 $ calc "2*16" 32 $ calc "2+16" 18

I value this sentiment and do feel charitable, but $2000 is not a small amount for me - I could buy 10 or more used Android phones for the same price and flash them with open sourc…

> The problem is no matter what custom flavor of Android you run, you are still running an OS made by an ad company designed from the ground up to spy on you. LineageOS and Graphen…

Firefox is on a serious roll this year, from performance improvements to actual privacy hardening that matters. Since Chrome rolled out auto-login, I've made it my personal mission…

I'm unsold on spending $2,000 or even $700 on a new phone, but I also care deeply about privacy and security. Is there any strong reason to choose "Librem" over a cheaper Android r…

Good to know, but I don't need to write anything on OpenBSD. The protection is just enabled by default. That is more comforting to me as a user.

Does it? On OpenBSD, Chrome cannot read my ~/.ssh directory, can the same guarantee be made on Mac?

OpenBSD has a really novel concept of using unveil and pledge to contain processes into restricted-service operating modes. And being OpenBSD, these security features are actually …

No, but that would be fairly easy to configure - put the IoT devices on their own VLAN with dedicated DNS server. My household is small and the list of new domains visited is manag…

But not all of them, right? Some of the vulnerabilities do require upstream microcode updates, and without them, I feel like the risk introduced outweighs any benefit provided by L…

Yes, nothing fancy. On the router, Dnsmasq and Dnscrypt-proxy with "forwarding rules" mapping domains or TLDs to desired resolvers. Any queries not matched get forwarded upstream t…

On my home network, using dnscrypt-proxy, I keep a whitelist of top-level domains my devices have connected to. The few new domains to resolve are forwarded to a remote server and …

> x200 with Libreboot How safe are those now that the Intel vulnerabilities are known? I doubt hardware that old is getting microcode updates.