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Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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Post by mindslight »

21 wrote: post #39
mindslight wrote: post #27

Well I do have to thank them for blowing this up now, as I'm in the market for a new pocket tracker. It seems like the least-worst option is Samsung Exynos -> Lineage -> No GoogleCrutches -> F-droid. Still a fucking dumpster fire. Alas, here's to hoping pmOS (or the like) actually goes somewhere.

If you really care just get an Apple. I don't care that much so I'm still on Android.

Isn't that a bit like avoiding a stalker by checking into a mental hospital?

I had actually considered it (if for nothing else than the more coherent target to be hacked on), but am wary of just heading towards a different strong attractor for top-down control.

Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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Post by trumped »

mindslight wrote: post #27

Well I do have to thank them for blowing this up now, as I'm in the market for a new pocket tracker. It seems like the least-worst option is Samsung Exynos -> Lineage -> No GoogleCrutches -> F-droid. Still a fucking dumpster fire. Alas, here's to hoping pmOS (or the like) actually goes somewhere.

It's fairly straightforward to install LineageOS on the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 32GB [1], but they make you wait 72 hours before you can unlock the bootloader and I had to use a Windows virtual machine to be able to use the unlock software...

1. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Global-version-Xiaomi-Redmi-...

Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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Post by asdsa5325 »

evadne wrote: post #40

$ curl -s "https://api.github.com/orgs/AndroidHardening/repos?per_page=200" | ruby -rubygems -e "require 'json'; JSON.load(STDIN.read).each { |repo| puts \"git clone #{repo['ssh_url']} android-hardening-#{repo['name'].gsub(/(.)([A-Z])/,'\1-\2').downcase.gsub(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/, '-').gsub(/-(-+)/, '-')}\" }" | parallel -j 8 '{}'

What is this?

Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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Post by craftyguy »

adjkant wrote: post #23
adjkant wrote: post #16

Looks like more than just the two looped in now: https://old.reddit.com/r/redditrequest/comments/8ra5b5/reque... Edit: The repo is also private now https://github.com/CopperheadOS http://archive.is/rOnWi

Update - A community member tried to document the happenings of the events and the CEO of CopperheadOS sent a DMCA request to take it down. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yegortimoshenko/copperhead...

I thought DMCA was a US thing?

Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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Post by bribroder »

asdsa5325 wrote: post #43
evadne wrote: post #40

$ curl -s "https://api.github.com/orgs/AndroidHardening/repos?per_page=200" | ruby -rubygems -e "require 'json'; JSON.load(STDIN.read).each { |repo| puts \"git clone #{repo['ssh_url']} android-hardening-#{repo['name'].gsub(/(.)([A-Z])/,'\1-\2').downcase.gsub(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/, '-').gsub(/-(-+)/, '-')}\" }" | parallel -j 8 '{}'

What is this?

They want you to clone all of the repos belonging to https://github.com/androidhardening, for some reason... I suppose they think it will be taken down by GitHub lawyers?

Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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Post by mindslight »

trumped wrote: post #42
mindslight wrote: post #27

Well I do have to thank them for blowing this up now, as I'm in the market for a new pocket tracker. It seems like the least-worst option is Samsung Exynos -> Lineage -> No GoogleCrutches -> F-droid. Still a fucking dumpster fire. Alas, here's to hoping pmOS (or the like) actually goes somewhere.

It's fairly straightforward to install LineageOS on the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 32GB [1], but they make you wait 72 hours before you can unlock the bootloader and I had to use a Windows virtual machine to be able to use the unlock software... 1. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Global-version-Xiaomi-Redmi-...

I discarded anything Snapdragon, as incorporating the hostile baseband processor into the same chip as the trusted CPU is the wrong idea.

This rules out an awful lot of the offerings, but at least there's Exynos (and Atom). I'd imagine the open-security-focused solution of the future will eventually push all that proprietary-algorithm-intensive hostile crap into something like a mifi.

Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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Post by craftyguy »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #34
mindslight wrote: post #27

Well I do have to thank them for blowing this up now, as I'm in the market for a new pocket tracker. It seems like the least-worst option is Samsung Exynos -> Lineage -> No GoogleCrutches -> F-droid. Still a fucking dumpster fire. Alas, here's to hoping pmOS (or the like) actually goes somewhere.

If you want to use Android, don't forget about microG. There's even their Lineage fork: https://lineage.microg.org/

> microG

You don't need this crap.

Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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Post by ReverseCold »

djsumdog wrote: post #17

I don't think it's over for CopperheadOS, but it is over for that name. Like Cyanogen changing to LineageOS, the dev who deleted his signing keys will probably just foke a new code base with a new name. Obviously it won't be as peaceful a transition Cyanogen->Lineage, but that's my prediction for this Android variant in the next few months.

> the dev who deleted his signing keys will probably just foke a new code base with a new name

"I can't continue CopperheadOS without Copperhead. I need to think about what my options are in terms of finding a new job. [...] I'm not starting many things over again from scratch and I'm not founding a new company." - strcat

I offered to help him try and find funding to work on it without copperhead, but that's what he said.

Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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Post by ReverseCold »

evadne wrote: post #40

$ curl -s "https://api.github.com/orgs/AndroidHardening/repos?per_page=200" | ruby -rubygems -e "require 'json'; JSON.load(STDIN.read).each { |repo| puts \"git clone #{repo['ssh_url']} android-hardening-#{repo['name'].gsub(/(.)([A-Z])/,'\1-\2').downcase.gsub(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/, '-').gsub(/-(-+)/, '-')}\" }" | parallel -j 8 '{}'

That's a useful snippet. I wanted to download all the repos of a different organization the other day. Thanks!

Re: CopperheadOS update: Developer suspended from Reddit

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Post by seba_dos1 »

mindslight wrote: post #35
seba_dos1 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to use Android, don't forget about microG. There's even their Lineage fork: https://lineage.microg.org/

Well I don't really want to use Android. What I want is a long-battery-life GNU computer that fits in my pocket, with an optional chorded keyboard. Which could then run any needed Android apps in an untrusted vm [0]. Alas. I'll have to look into microG. My plan was just to avoid attractive nuisance apps on my everyday phone, and stick with stuff from F-droid. But then of course eg traveling puts one in a different mo…

The great thing about microG is that you can configure everything in it that communicates somehow with external services. So for instance you can disable Google Cloud Messaging (I think it's even disabled by default), or enable it only when you need it, or configure it so only one app can use it, etc. The same with GPS augmentation - backends for it are switchable, so you can use Google, Apple, Mozilla or even offline database for that. I'm glad microG exists, I use it on my one Android device I keep for testing Android ports of my software and for occasional emergency situations (like having to use mobile bank app or get some transport data that's very helpfully only available as a mobile app for platforms I don't want to use on my main device).

Otherwise I just keep using Nokia N900, which replaced my old Openmoko Neo Freerunner. I'm waiting for my preordered Neo900, Librem 5 and Pyra.

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