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Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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Not practical in many cases. I'm starting a new job soon and have to visit the US. No way am I saying no to that (way too good a job). I'll probably just buy a decoy phone for the border.

Start setting up profiles ASAP, you want a plausible amount of history for a decoy.

How would one do that?

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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The bodycam literally shows a police officer responding to a man who's been stabbed with "I don't think you have mate", just because his killer said the man was racist.

It's "disinformation" because it's not what the The Ministry of Truth says.

The far right, is far from wrong.

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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Indeed, but the UK is in many ways words. At the least in the USA, often the constitution is upheld (give or take); in the UK you often don't even have such fundamental rights. The UK at present fits more to Russia than, e. g. European countries.

> At the least in the USA, often the constitution is upheld Some of ICE’s detainees may have different opinions on that point. The UK may endow her citizens with fewer rights. But I have a lot more trust in British due process. British civil servants seem much less … capricious than Americans. I was almost denied entry to Hawaii once because I told the CBP agent I didn’t have any cash on me. (My money is in a bank ac…

I mean, the argument is that ICE detainees are not citizens and thus don't get the protection, similar to foreigners engaging with CBP at the border

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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They can make your life difficult for sure, but they can't hold you indefinitely as a citizen.

What stops them?

Your friends and family and lawyers.

Stop laying down and showing your belly. When are you going to start standing up for yourself?

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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Didn't they also arrest a guy for writing some random Arabic on a flag because Hamas also has a flag written in Arabic?

Idk did they? Who knows man a lot of stuff is said on the internet that might’ve or might’ve not happened

The least goated take. While it is good to give the benefit of doubt where it is due, there is a line where it starts to taste like shoe leather.

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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And lets not forget how pointless Play Integrity is for what it is being touted to be for, when there is millions of "Certified" devices ready for us by shady people via clickfarms.

Well, those don’t have modified critical OS components or modified app binaries. So Play Integrity works for that at least.

Unless the app has certificate pinning, the modification of app behaviour is also not guaranteed. Really, it is just a pointless exercise for most of the use cases.

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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And if the border guard asks for the name of the computer art festival, to check if it exists?

it's called Revision and the website is https://revision-party.net

Which doesn't contain "hack" in the title.

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

#489

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Well, those don’t have modified critical OS components or modified app binaries. So Play Integrity works for that at least.

Unless the app has certificate pinning, the modification of app behaviour is also not guaranteed. Really, it is just a pointless exercise for most of the use cases.

Any app using Play Integrity uses cert pinning. I wish play integrity was just theater, it would make my business a hell of a lot easier.

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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It's so surprising that despute so many screams "China" in western media in the last 15 years, it happens in the west, but in China it's free to use any OS without any negative consequences. Why? What's going on?

China has a whole other level of control going on. You’re free to use any mobile OS you want because they’re able to monitoring every internet connection, see what you’re downloading and block any and all content they deem unsuitable with no recourse. They can also arrest you and move you to a labor camp with little recourse. I’m not defending the UK police’s actions here but “it’s just as bad as China!” is a refrain…

/s

yup, me and my whole family using VPNs on there phones were arrested and placed in labor camp, I'm writing this now from camp, sending it to gateway on pigeon...

but seriously, these people fear mongering arbor China are completely clueless, China absolutely doesn't care about you unless you go against gov, nobody checked our phones at border, nobody bothered us, at the Beijing province border checks they noticed we didn't register our accommodation which is mandatory and just let us go on our trip anyway telling us to go to police after weekend where we met extremely laid-back police officers smoking under no smoking sign

been living there for years and the situation was same, I fucked up paperwork which would in US lead to detention and deportation, in China we always found solution, there is always workaround for rules, China doesn't care about you unless you do something extreme against the gov

I remember being on high horse about freedom and other BS regarding West vs china, but since COVID I'm more and more failing to see the difference, quite the opposite for West

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