Soooo...
What do y'all recommend if I want to run a rooted Android phone? Seems like our options are becoming more and more limited each year. :-(
Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA
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The system partition is made some fixed size, the same way disk partitioning works on PCs, and never resized, because resizing file systems is still a non-trivial task. It often has some free space too to accommodate future system updates. On my 128 GB Pixel 9 Pro, /data is 109 GB. The rest is /system (although `df -h` doesn't show it explicitly, no idea what's up with that) and various other system-related partition…
Yes, but if the phone shipped with less bloatware on the system partition, then maybe that partition would be made smaller initially. Meaning the user would have access to more of the phone’s advertised storage.
You have succeeded in splitting hairs down to the atomic level. Fissionable HN comments!!
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#393Soooo... What do y'all recommend if I want to run a rooted Android phone? Seems like our options are becoming more and more limited each year. :-(
The manufacturers will continue to take user choice away until users start tossing their devices in the trash. Sooner is better IMO.
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#394Samsung embeds spyware on every device they sell in the US too, we just don't have any privacy laws to stop them.
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In my case I wanted a damn SD card slot. And more than 2 years of security updates.
Ano now you see why Samsung is able to provide all that at an attractive price. The real costs are hidden.
The more expensive phones don't have SD card slots!
But yeah, presumably in the cheaper markets the Candy Crush whales are subsidizing the phones. Like with Windows these days. Anyway time to go back to playing Fortnite and Marvel Rivals
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#396Not in this field but, if you're willing to sacrifice performance for security (by avoiding closed, western, hardware) how hard would it be to for a group of top hardware and software engineers to make a secure smartphone? Id gather you could go very far with the following list: - Proved correct micro kernel - Encrypted messaging by default - Encrypted memory - Encrypted messaging between processes. - hardware switch…
Technical feasibility one way or the other is meaningless in the face of the power of Capital. IMO, Capital won’t allow the creation of devices it cannot control. So truly secure devices are a pipe dream — again my opinion.
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#397Supply chain compromise is maybe one of the most cyberpunk aspects of modern security. It's not mathematical but it depends on allegiances, power, and money. Is it too late to introduce cryptographic verification into the supply chain in a way that the customer can be secure, or is it too late and a cyberpunk dystopia is the only future? Can mathematics change the meta?
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That's wishful thinking. Flying drones aren't the only threat, or the main threat, and there isn't such a thing as "counter-UAS tech", only counter-yesterday's-UAS tech. Radio jamming was "counter-UAS tech" until the mass production of fiber-optic-controlled FPV drones starting five months ago, for example. You can still find vendors marketing it as such. 30 milligrams of high explosive is enough to open your daughte…
> 30 milligrams of high explosive is enough to open your daughter's skull, or, more relevantly, your commanding officer's daughter's skull, and there are a thousand ways to deliver it While we are talking about flying drones, we are not far off from Slaughterbots becoming reality.[0] Why bother with surgical assassinations if you can blanket entire regions with with swarms of autonomous seek-and-destroy explosives? A…
It's sad that it was only months after that video was released that autonomous drones were being used to kill people in war. That video was meant as a warning but it was totally ignored.
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How would one go about using adb? Motorola, stock Android. Do I need to root my phone for this to work or what are the requirements, or how do I perform it?
1. Install android SDK / android studio on your computer. 2. Plug phone in to computer using USBC cable. 3. Answer prompt on phone granting permission to computer. 4. Run adb commands.
You also have to enable developer options (tap the Android build number N times) and then enable USB debugging. You can disable USB debugging and the developer options afterwards (keeping USB debugging on is insecure).
The universal android debloater makes uninstalling packages easier, it has descriptions and categorizes packages by how safe they are to uninstall.