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Good for the magnification, but I need a full screen reader with a tts engine.
Looking in the settings, I see there is something called TalkBack: ``` When Talkback is on, it provides spoken feedback so that you can use your device without looking at the screen. Talkback is intended for situations or people who have difficulty seeing the screen. ```
There is also eFoundation: https://e.foundation/
Are there any good phones that haven't been "googled" in the first place?
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Yet somehow the US government can't even prevent me from downloading copyrighted torrents.
There's a difference between stopping an action at a societal level, and targeting an individual through any means necessary.
Yup. It always amazes me how often people conflate, "The U.S. government can't be bothered to stop people from doing X" with, "The U.S. government can't stop people from doing X". If you want to test this out, try not paying federal taxes for a while.
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There's a difference between stopping an action at a societal level, and targeting an individual through any means necessary.
> There's a difference between stopping an action at a societal level, and targeting an individual through any means necessary. Yup. It always amazes me how often people conflate, "The U.S. government can't be bothered to stop people from doing X" with, "The U.S. government can't stop people from doing X". If you want to test this out, try not paying federal taxes for a while.
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The solution I have is a wired-in, locked down raspberry pi where I have a separate email account, PGP key, etc. Phones are definitely a writeoff though, with the possible exception of the PinePhone. If memory serves, the 4g modem lacks direct memory access which improves security substantially.
Can anyone be sure an enormous open source project like a Linux distribution isn't backdoored?
At the end of the day, all operating systems have exploits. Nation states pay big money online to buy the exploits for their own use, before the good guys find them and out them. If your system is being compromised by a nation state, it is much more likely buy a purchased exploit than by an explicitly-added backdoor.
I can't say anything about intercepting your communications, though. The NSA might or might not have technical ways of decrypting some of your encrypted communications.
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These aims shouldn't be incompatible. The device should be able to use purely local location data to tag the photos, and then the photos should only be made available to applications the user trusts. We've been so brainwashed by saas companies to expect that simply collecting information implies sharing it. The point of distributions like this is to remove those cloud dependencies while retaining functionality, and p…
Fine if you decide to have GPS enabled for photos, but it should be opt in rather than opt out. Anyone who manages to get access to your images could reconstruct a map of where and when you have been
I naively assumed, given how GPS works, that I could enable location access, and disable network access for the camera app, and that it would still be capable of copying two floating point numbers from the local GPS chipset to the exif data.
Instead, it wants to call out to some questionable network services.
I'm clearly not the only one that wants this feature. Graphene even includes a reimplementation of the necessary Google API.
However, it (and the original google implementation) are flaky. This all "just worked" on my iPhone and (before that) Windows Phone. It didn't even occur to me that it was a thing that could be screwed up.
Is this real? It has the appeal of a typical scam/phishing site ... and I am not just talking about the design. Some things like business address appear to be placeholders.
This will probably be buried because I'm too late to the party... This website is probably just selling you the results of following a guide from a guy who goes by Michael Bazzel. He has a podcast (Privacy, Security, and OSINT show) and releases a privacy book every other year, alternating with an OSINT book. He also has good guides on his website and they sell all sorts of training. Anyway, if you want it done right…
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The solution I have is a wired-in, locked down raspberry pi where I have a separate email account, PGP key, etc. Phones are definitely a writeoff though, with the possible exception of the PinePhone. If memory serves, the 4g modem lacks direct memory access which improves security substantially.
Can anyone be sure an enormous open source project like a Linux distribution isn't backdoored?