Google collects metadata from Android phones

Post by yuhong » Tue, Jul 05, 2016, 9:30 PM UTC

dredmorbius wrote: post #254

nickpsecurity wrote: post #253

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"Fixing the funding model is an independent problem." Oh no, it's a very, intertwined problem. One is only likely to succeed in business using models that are shown to work. A browser, secure platform, and so on is usually tens to hundreds of millions in labor. The only companies that have pulled that off either used premium, licensed software (eg Microsoft) or advertising (the rest). There's scores of attempts at al…

The problem is separable in that it is conceptually possible to make organisation for software development independent of the business organisation that uses it. We've had this in the past, we have it now, though typically in smaller pieces. It's largely how Unix was developed (an unlikely consortium of a company which quite literally wasn't allowed to sell the product, but could make use of it, and a group of academ…

Post by nickpsecurity » Thu, Jul 07, 2016, 7:23 PM UTC

dlmetcalf wrote: post #262

nickpsecurity wrote: post #258

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Thanks for the tips on other apps and the Android distro. Much appreciated. Far as Signal issue, I did find this: https://www.reddit.com/r/gnu/comments/4cd451/libresignal_sig... Perhaps some more volunteers putting effort in could remedy the situation.

You're welcome. Unfortunately, LibreSignal was shut down due to: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco... . I wouldn't pin too much hope on having a high quality PR written and integrated back to Signal soon. It doesn't look like a top priority for them. OWS also like the telemetry that Play gives them for diagnostics and have stated they won't be looking at FDroid unless someone can replace th…