Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification
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Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification
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Re: Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification
#2The requirement of verification to side-load any app is fascist control. It is clear as night and day.
Shame on Google and Apple, it was always clear this was the end goal and next up is also your PC.
Right after will come the removal off apps they don't like and there is nothing you can do about it.
Stallman was right
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#3So no F-Droid?
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#5This shouldn't just be "questions"; this should be a full-on opposition. Do not give them even an inch, or they'll take a mile.
"debugger vendors in 2047 distributed numbered copies only, and only to officially licensed and bonded programmers." - Richard Stallman, The Right to Read, 1997
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It is if the laws are fascist. Which is currently the case, and is the example given in the article.
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"If you outlaw freedom, only outlaws will have freedom."
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I mean this is also an enormous problem for nations which would like to provide intelligence capability to their agents.
A special carve out for anonymous apps only for people with government connections doesn't help because it fingerprints the operative.
Tor was originally a deniable communications tool.
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ICEBlock isn't illegal.
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#10This shouldn't just be "questions"; this should be a full-on opposition. Do not give them even an inch, or they'll take a mile. "debugger vendors in 2047 distributed numbered copies only, and only to officially licensed and bonded programmers." - Richard Stallman, The Right to Read , 1997
Stallman's fallacy is thinking every system is perfect and unbreakable and that people have a perfect understanding of software and systems (for better or for worse)
People will be running pirated debugger copies if that comes to shove
99.9% of people DNGAF about OSS. They do care about doing what they need on their phone without malware/bloatware/nagware
Also publishing and development are separate activities