>More privacy improvements
But still no encrypted chat. It's cute watching the security theater out of Google. Security to them means "only WE get access to your data, and ALL of your data".
Android 11 beta is available now
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#12Its almost as if each Android version is there to further tighten Google's monopolistic screws.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
These are normal apps, unfortunately, crashing at or near startup. I believe that Google made some changes to JNI in Android 11 and most of the crashes are in native code.
I have never seen anything but a native crash for drm code issues. I would be willing to bet some type of drm is still the problem here.
Unfortunately based on some quick analysis it looks like there _was_ a change in JNI - previously JNI method handles were pointer-like and now they are opaque integers. Definitely not DRM in this case.
Apps crash in the default mode. Hacking the device so that SetJniType is called with kPointer makes it all work.
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/art/+/master/runti...
Re: Android 11 beta is available now
#14>More privacy improvements But still no encrypted chat. It's cute watching the security theater out of Google. Security to them means "only WE get access to your data, and ALL of your data".
Encrypted chat is an app, not an OS API.
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#15But will my weather always show in the clock now instead of randomly? (The "At a glance that's on the homescreen, shows the date, weather, upcoming events etc. Frequently it just shows the date for me and drops weather info) And do we really need bubbles? Do people actually like those? I always found that annoying.
Android is customizable, you can put any weather widget you want, or completely swap the launcher too.
As for bubbles, I think they're also optional, though if it can merge conversations across multiple different apps seamlessly, I'm all for it.
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#16Unfortunately I'll never be able to receive this update on my Samsung S9, since they aren't providing any further Android updates...
They don't do verified boot anyway.
Google hardware like Pixels with custom ROMs (GrapheneOS anyone?) are the move.
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#17>More privacy improvements But still no encrypted chat. It's cute watching the security theater out of Google. Security to them means "only WE get access to your data, and ALL of your data".
Encrypted chat is an app, not an OS API.
I mean it could be part of the OS. It would be kind of cool if your OS could have an API to encrypt private user data with some key that only the other persons OS can decode.
Chat apps could then delegate security to the OS, rather than having to trust that the app developer has a security team that knows what they're doing.
You could even take it one step further and have the plaintext of the users messages secret from the app - the OS would draw them direct to the screen. A bit like opaque cross-origin data in webpages is secret from JavaScript on the page.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Encrypted chat is an app, not an OS API.
I mean it could be part of the OS. It would be kind of cool if your OS could have an API to encrypt private user data with some key that only the other persons OS can decode. Chat apps could then delegate security to the OS, rather than having to trust that the app developer has a security team that knows what they're doing. You could even take it one step further and have the plaintext of the users messages secret f…
Why would you trust Google with that though?
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#19Every single android version revamps the notification UI.
I'm not complaining, this one _looks_ nice. But why change it every goddamn update? It's like one step forward, one step back.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean it could be part of the OS. It would be kind of cool if your OS could have an API to encrypt private user data with some key that only the other persons OS can decode. Chat apps could then delegate security to the OS, rather than having to trust that the app developer has a security team that knows what they're doing. You could even take it one step further and have the plaintext of the users messages secret f…
Why would you trust Google with that though?
Right. Implementation of encryption is the easiest part to fuck up and/or backdoor.